More Land Sealed by Authorities

KOMPAS/FAJAR RAMADHAN

Images of the spreading haze released by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) on Wednesday (14/8/2019)

PONTIANAK, KOMPAS — In the past two weeks, 10 plots of concession land belonging to plantation and industrial forest companies in West Kalimantan have been sealed by officers from the Environment and Forestry Ministry’s Directorate General of Law Enforcement. Three of them were sealed on Tuesday (13/8/2019).

The latest three companies are based in Mempawah and Ketapang regencies. The total burned forest area in these three concession lands amounts to 200 hectares, while the total burned area in the other seven concession lands amounts to 554 ha.