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Regent’s permits add to deforestation : study

Forestry activists have warned of a sharp increase in the national deforestation rate if the government fails to deal with the overlapping permits issued for forest concessions and industrial timber forest.

Greenpeace Indonesia’s latest study found about 18.4 million hectares of forest concession areas and forest production had mostly been occupied by plantation and mining companies. Thanks to permits issued by regents.

“It is an illegal practice. The regents have no rights to issue permits for plantation companies to operate or occupy forest concessions and industrial area. Only the Forestry Ministry can do that,” Greenpeace National Coordinator Vanda Mutia Dewi told the Jakarta Post on Monday.

The government has allocated a total of 60.91 million hectares for forest concession or for production forests.

“With the overlapping permits, illegal occupation of the forest concession areas and industrial forest will contribute more to the national deforestation rate than illegal logging practice,” she said. (The Jakarta Post)