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2005/11/2
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Illegal logging in Indonesia which is the result of an imbalance between supply and demand for raw material from the national timber industry should be solved by wood and timber imports, an activist of the National Environmental Watchdog (Walhi) says.
"The imbalance between supply and demand should be corrected in addition to more attention to the rights of people living in the vicinity of the forests, especially in dealing with illegal logging," Rully Syumanda, a Walhi executive, said on Friday.
According to Rully, another solution might be the closure of some timber and logging industries to reduce their production capacity.
The workers of the shut down timber factories could be transferred to the upstream plantation sector, he said.
Well-managed industries should be given the opportunity to import timber and logs from other countries such as China, he said.
Touching on the flash floods which had attacked Southeast Aceh killing 21 people, he said they were equally disastrous with that which had hit the Bahorok tourist resort in Langkat district, North Sumatra on November 2, 2003.
"After finding some logs washed away by the flash floods, we start suspecting that the find was the result of illegal logging. We still have no idea about the scale of the illegal logging activities" Rully said. (*) |
| Source:http://www.antara.co.id/ |
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