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Thu, 04/29/2010 - 16:19
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S SUMATRA STILL VULNERABLE TO ILLEGAL LOGGING
Palembang, S Sumatra, April 29 (ANTARA) - South Sumatra Province has remained vulnerable to the illegal logging scourge, police said.
Over the past year, police in South Sumatra handled 97 illegal logging cases, a local police officer said.
Speaking at a seminar on climate change here Thursday, Chief of South Sumatra police`s legal division Senior Commissioner Sudaryanto said fighting illegal logging was part of the police`s priorities.
From 2009 to January 2010, the South Sumatran police investigated some 97 illegal logging cases. Twenty-two of the cases were eventually settled in court, he said.
However, combating illegal loggers was a challenging task because the police`s operational costs were not comparable to the relatively light sentences the suspects received from the court, he said.
In safeguarding the protected forests and cracking down illegal loggers, including the businessmen who used local people for cutting the trees, he said the police needed the people`s help.
The South Sumatran police worked with local people and non-governmental organizations` activists to prevent the province`s forests from the illegal loggers, he said.
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Over the past year, police in South Sumatra handled 97 illegal logging cases, a local police officer said.
Speaking at a seminar on climate change here Thursday, Chief of South Sumatra police`s legal division Senior Commissioner Sudaryanto said fighting illegal logging was part of the police`s priorities.
From 2009 to January 2010, the South Sumatran police investigated some 97 illegal logging cases. Twenty-two of the cases were eventually settled in court, he said.
However, combating illegal loggers was a challenging task because the police`s operational costs were not comparable to the relatively light sentences the suspects received from the court, he said.
In safeguarding the protected forests and cracking down illegal loggers, including the businessmen who used local people for cutting the trees, he said the police needed the people`s help.
The South Sumatran police worked with local people and non-governmental organizations` activists to prevent the province`s forests from the illegal loggers, he said.
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