2 DPOs Of Illegal Logging In Malang Arrested By Police

DOC/ANTARA/HO-Humas Malang Police

Malang Resort Police arrested two people who were included in the People's Wanted List (DPO) for cases of illegal logging in the Perhutani area, in Gedangan District, Malang Regency, East Java. Head of Public Relations of Malang Police Iptu Ahmad Taufik said two DPOs who were arrested by officers with the initials KS (58) and SN (40) who are residents of Gajahrejo Village, Gedangan District, Malang Regency. "Two suspected perpetrators of illegal timber cases were successfully secured. Two of them entered the DPO," said Taufik as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, June 5.Taufik explained that the arrest of the two perpetrators was carried out by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Sector Police (Polsek) Gedangan in the Watu Leper Beach area, Sitiarjo Village, Sumbnermjing Wetan District, on Saturday (3/6) at around 20.30 WIB. According to him, officers who had previously carried out direct surveillance immediately arrested the two perpetrators while riding at the entrance to the beach tourism. Both were arrested in the case of illegal logging that occurred in November 2021. At that time, KS and SN, as well as two others carried and controlled eight hangouts of sonokeling type forest wood without being accompanied by official documents in the Forestry area of RPH Bantr plot 88 M in Dusun Bajulmati, Gajahrejo District, Gedangan District. "The case occurred in November 2021, at that time four people managed to escape and have been designated as DPOs," he said.

The two suspects who have previously been arrested by officers have undergone legal proceedings and received a sentence of one year and eight months, with a fine of Rp. 500 million, subsidiary to two months in prison. Currently, the police are conducting intensive examinations of the two perpetrators who were charged with Article 12 letter E Juncto Article 83 paragraph 1 letter B concerning the prevention and eradication of forest destruction, with a maximum threat of five years in prison and a fine of Rp. 2.5 billion.