About ILEA
The Integrated Law Enforcement Approach
(ILEA)
project aims to promote coordinated legal enforcement
among
major actors affecting the forestry sector. This project facilitates coordination and
collaboration amongst all institutions working to curb forestry crime,
corruption, and money laundering. The main goal of the project is to develop a
more efficient, effective and integrated approach to stop or reduce illegal
logging. The project strategy is to 'follow the money' rather than 'follow
the wood' of logging operations. Accepted practices of following illegal logs
have stopped a relatively small portion of illegal timber being cut. Small-scale
operatives and low-level employees of illegal logging operations have been
convicted. But following the money trail will lead to key actors in
finance and organised crime who reap high profits from illegal logging.
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Insight
Law enforcement efforts to
crack down on organised crime can actually cause
official corruption to increase if asset forfeiture
is not integrated into the effort, according to a study published at
Review of Law and Economics 4 (1) ,
Article 14, in October 2008. Teh study was
conducted over 14 years and spanned 107
different nations. A key
finding is that without asset
forfeiture programmes, high-level corruption grows
rapidly even while, paradoxically, the public sector
may devote more justice system
resources to convicting more members of crime
syndicates.
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Donor initiatives
The Forest Governance
Initiative aims to promote good forest governance
in Indonesia in order to ensure that forest
resources contribute as much as possible to
poverty alleviation, economic growth and sustainable forest management and conservation.
This programme will contribute to the achievement
of the above goal by promoting forest law
enforcement, transparency and accountability,
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Instruments
The Extractive Industries
Transparencies Initiative, EITI, is a voluntary global standard that promotes revenue transparency at the local level.
The standard encourages governments, extractive companies, civil society, and investor and international organisations to work together to develop a framework for
making publicly available payments and receipts of extractive industries. EITI has developed
a methodology for monitoring and reconciling company
payments and government revenue so that the revenue
is used efficiently and equitably, and to increase
transparency of funds allocated to develop a
country’s extractive industry resources.
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Indicators
The Supreme Court of Indonesia
has convicted Martias, also known as Pung
Kian Hwa, of corruption on 11 December 2007. The verdict
sets a precedent for using anti-corruption laws in
cases involving forestry
forestry cases.
Martias was charge with accepting
favors from 4 senior government representatives to acquiring and
misusing a Timber Use Permit. The 4 officials were: then governor
of East Kalimantan, Suwarna AF; a director general
within the Ministry of Forestry, Waskito Suryohadibroto;
the former head of
the Provincial Forestry Service of East Kalimantan, Uuh
Aliyudin; and Robian. The malfeasnace caused losses
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News and events
Battle brewing over
forests and plantations in Papua
Jakarta Globe, 9 May 2010
Environmentalists are up in arms over the latest design for the Merauke
Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, which they say will see more than
1.1 million hectares of forests converted into agricultural estates. The Merauke
project, which spans three districts in Papua, is part of the government’s plan
to develop agricultural estates in remote areas such as Papua and Kalimantan so
they can become self-sufficient in food production and eventually major food
exporters.......
Govt ready to
facilitate Greenpeace case
Antara, 8 May 2010
The agriculture ministry is ready to facilitate a meeting between Greenpeace
and PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources & Technology Tbk. (PT SMART) to clarify issue on
environmental destruction by oil palm plantations. Greenpeace Southeast Asia
campaigner Bustar Maitar said Indonesia has one of the fastest rates of forest
destruction on the planet, with palm oil and pulp and paper plantations being
major causes. As a result, it is now the world's third largest greenhouse gas
emitter, after China and the United States.............
Criminal logging
hurts climate and jobs: US Report
Jakarta Globe, 5 May 2010
Illegal logging in this country, a leading timber exporter, is threatening
jobs in the US forest products industry and undermining efforts to use forests
to fight climate change, according to a report by US labor and environmental
groups. Illegal logging undermines the strength and sustainability of the forest
products economy, both in Indonesia and the United States.........
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