Complete File, KLHK Puts Intellectual Actor Who Destroys Tesso Nilo National Park Volunteers To The Riau Prosecutor's Office

The KLHK Gakkum team together with the suspected financier TNTN S were handed over to the Riau Prosecutor's Office after the files were declared complete. (ANTARA)

The Directorate General of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry handed over the suspect who vandalized Tesso Nilo National Park, Pelalawan Regency, to the Riau High Prosecutor's Office for immediate trial. Head of the Balai Gakkum KLHK Sumatra Region, Subhan, said that the case file for the intellectual actor who added TNTN was suspect S (40). Currently, the case file has been declared complete (P21) based on the Riau High Prosecutor's Letter on January 13, 2023. "Investigators from the Sumatra Ministry of Environment and Forestry Balai Gakkum have now handed over the suspect and evidence to the Public Prosecutor at the Pelalawan District Attorney for further processing," he said in Pekanbaru, Antara, Friday, January 20. This case is the development of the 60-hectare forest expansion case of Tesso Nilo in Lubuk Kembang Bunga Village, Ukui District, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province. The case has obtained an inkracht decision from the Pelalawan District Court on August 26, 2022, a.n. Thamrin Als Morin Bin Udin et al who made the addition from January to March 2022. Based on the facts of the trial, it is known that S (40) acted as the party who ordered the convicts to penetrate and cut down trees in that location. After that, the Joint Team of Region II Sections of the KLHK Balai Gakkum for the Sumatra Region and the Riau Police PPNS Korwas managed to secure S in Pekanbaru City and their cellphones on November 14, 2022. "Before being arrested S fought back against officers in the form of beatings and retaking of heavy equipment when TN officer Tesso Nilo tried to stop and secure S and a gang that were entering another location in the Tesso Nilo TN area using heavy equipment," said Subhan. For his actions, the perpetrators are threatened with punishment in accordance with Law Number 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and their Ecosystems, and Law Number 18 of 2013 concerning Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction as amended by Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation jo. Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st Criminal Code. It contains forest addition actors who are threatened with imprisonment for a maximum of 15 years and a maximum fine of Rp. 100 billion.