OPINI: Bambang Setiono (Forest and Governance Program, Center for International Forestry Research)

Menteri Kehutanan telah menyerahkan nama-nama cukong pencuri kayu kepada Kejaksaan Agung dan Kepolisian Republik Indonesia dengan harapan para cukong ini segera masuk penjara dan hutan dapat dilestarikan sedikit demi sedikit. Harapan itu kemudian menjadi kekecewaan manakala aparat penegak hukum yang telah diberi informasi rahasia tersebut tidak mampu berbuat apa-apa. Di mana kemacetan upaya menjerat para cukong pencuri kayu ini? Setidaknya ada empat kendala bagi aparat penegak hukum untuk menjerat para cukong ini.

The Queen’s Award for Forestry was presented to Dr. Ravi Prabhu at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 2005. The award was created to reward a Commonwealth citizen for his or her contribution to forestry and their ability to encourage the development of forestry within Commonwealth countries. Dr. Ravi Prabhu has made outstanding contributions to work on sustainable forest management. He has been a pioneering champion of a new approach to forest management in which how one manages a forest changes over time as the objectives, context, and condition of the forest change.

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Menteri Kehutanan tengah menyiapkan sejumlah langkah untuk mengamendemen Undang-undang Nomor 41 Tahun 1999 tentang Kehutanan. ”Kami tengah menginventarisir pasal-pasal yang akan direvisi,” kata Kaban di Jakarta.

JAKARTA – Kalangan lembaga swadaya masyarakat (LSM) menyambut baik pembentukan tim khusus untuk menangani penebangan kayu liar (illegal logging). Namun, mereka meminta pemerintah menunjukkan bukti konkret, bukan hanya membentuk tim ini dan itu. Penebangan ilegal terjadi setiap hari.

Minister for Forestry Kaban estimated that the area of forest which disappeared in this 10 years reached 4,311,000 hectares and the annual amount of money laundered from illegal logging exceeds 30 trillion rupiah. This was reported in Koran Tempo.

"Setiap tahunnya Rp 30 triliun uang hasil pembalakan liar menjalani proses pencucian uang."

Hutan Indonesia telah menjadi surga bagi para pelaku pembalakan liar (illegal logging). Jutaan kubik kayu yang berdiam di hutan alam dengan leluasa bisa dipanen secara "gratis". Uang haram hasil penjualannya pun tidak sulit untuk dicuci dan kemudian berubah menjadi halal.

Tropical rainforests, despite their locations, can suffer from drought, and during severe droughts, a rainforest can even become susceptible to fire. Evidence of past forest fires, in the form of charcoal deposits, can be found in many parts of the humid tropics, but there has been little documentation of the effects of such catastrophic disturbances on the ecology of tree species.

JAKARTA (Dow Jones)-Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper (PAP.YY) faces fresh allegations of illegal logging in China and Cambodia that could tarnish the firm’s efforts to rebrand as more environmentally-friendly, amid ongoing talks to restructure its $13.9 billion debt. The environment department of Cambodia’s southwestern Koh Kong province has launched legal action against an alleged APP subsidiary for illegal tree harvesting, Cambodia’s Minister of Environment, Mok Mareth, told Dow Jones Newswires recently.