Alleged Forest Sale And Purchase In Mukomuko Bengkulu, KPHP Report To Police

Access road to the Water Rami Production Forest in Mukomuko Regency, Thursday 25 March 2021. (ANTARA)

MUKOMUKO- The Mukomuko Resort Police and the Bengkulu Province Environment and Forestry Service received a report on the alleged sale and purchase of Air Rami Production Forest (HP) in Mukomuko Regency.

The report was submitted by the Production Forest Management Unit (KPHP) in the local area recently. "We have reported the alleged sale and purchase of forests carried out by unscrupulous residents, both to the police and the Bengkulu Province Environment and Forestry Service," said one official of the Mukomuko Regency KPHP, Weli Sulastri, in a statement, Friday, April 8, quoted from Antara. previously dispatched a number of personnel to seek information related to the sale and purchase of the remaining Air Rami Production Forest (HP) in this area, after a video circulated containing a number of people suspected of encroaching on the forest area. The results of patrols in the Air Rami HP area in this area, His party found a number of people who were carrying out illegal logging and received information related to the alleged sale and purchase of forests in this area. information from people who clear the forest and they open the forest because they are ordered by someone who is act as a cukong or capital owner, but we haven't met that person yet.

Then his party coordinated with the local resort police, but they are still waiting for the right moment to arrest people involved in buying and selling forests in this area. The local KPHP has been patrolling a number of state forests in this area since a few days ago. KPHP in addition to finding people who carried out illegal logging and evidence of illegal wood in two locations in the forest. He stated again, officers who patrolled state forest security in this area found 5.8 cubic meters of illegal wood from the Air Rami HP in this area, and 26 sticks in the Sungai Bahan and Sangkil areas which were in the Air Manjunto HPT in the District V area. Koto. Then KPHP officers together with local resort police personnel destroyed dozens of illegal logs by chopping them up.