E. Kalimantan loses 6m ha of forest<\/p>\n
SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: A total of more than six million
\nhectares of forest area in the province has been damaged due to
\nmismanagement and fires this year, says a local official.<\/p>\n
\"The destruction has a lot to do with the infringement of the
\ntransparency, conservation and justice principles in forest
\nmanagement,\" Robian, chief of the local forestry ministry office,
\nsaid here on Friday.<\/p>\n
He said that of the 6 million hectares of damaged forest
\nareas, more than 5.5 million hectares were in a critical
\ncondition and a part of them were located in industrial forests.<\/p>\n
He also said that 61,740 ha of mangrove forests were badly
\ndeteriorated.<\/p>\n
\"We must admit that damage to the forests has been magnified
\nby weak law enforcement and we can not do much to avoid the
\ndamage because of the complicated problems in the forests'
\nmanagement,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He called on the central government to designate the special
\nallocation funds to finance the reforestation program in the
\nprovince.<\/p>\n
The central government allocated Rp 190.7 billion for the
\nreforestation program in the province this year. --Antara<\/p>",
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