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Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) filed Aceh gubernatorial test material No. 5 of 2014 on Procedures and Requirements Cultivation Area Utilization Leuser. Therefore, the content of gubernatorial considered encouraging encroachment in the Leuser ecosystem area, Aceh.
"It's a quibble policy development. In fact destroying the environment and the welfare of society not at all, "said Director of WALHI Aceh Muhammad Nur. According to Nur, the remaining forest in the Leuser ecosystem area less than 1.92 million hectares aka shrunk 914 441 hectares in the last 30 years.
Focus rejection, added Manager Policy and Legal Defense Walhi Munhur Satyahaprabu, lies in chapters 3 and 4 which is a series that is set on the type of business license granted. Start of designation for the mining, agriculture, and plantations. Article shall be deemed to legalize the exploitation of the protected status of the Leuser region and violated Law on Spatial Planning.
Munhur asserted, the contents of the gubernatorial not in accordance with the Law on Spatial Planning sets the Leuser ecosystem as a protected area. "In the spatial, the status Leuser ecosystem area is protected forest. The area is very unstable. Supposedly the permits already granted immediately revoked, instead of giving more space for exploitation, "said Munhur to Guinea.
Since February, said Munhur, Walhi been warned and sent a letter to the governor of Aceh for the changes to protected areas into non-forest areas will not happen. However, all preventive measures are ignored until finally gubernatorial No. 5 published. "Clearly, there is a capital and business interests behind the decline of this rule."
Walhi noted, there are currently 144 mining concessions and 162 active plantations operating in the region. Meanwhile, this year has been 9 natural disasters due to damage in the protected area of the Leuser. Ie, floods, landslides, drought led to crop failure, as well as conflicts between animals and humans.
Meanwhile, responding to the demands of Walhi, Head of Forestry NAD Husaini Syamaun denied if the publication gubernatorial No. 5 of 2014 encourages the entry of industry into the Leuser ecosystem area. "Pergub passed to encourage conservation, because it establishes the permissions that are outside the forest area. Thus, none of the rules are violated, "said Husaini. Azhari Fauzi / Clara Rondonuwu
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