Forest harvest limited

Forest harvest limited

JAKARTA (JP): Director General of Forest Utilization Titus
Sarijanto said yesterday that timber companies must not fell more
than their annual quota.

He said the forestry and plantations ministry was considering
whether to impose a penalty on those who breached the regulation.

Titus said that timber companies were required to submit their
annual logging estimates to his office for approval but only 154
of the 430 forest concessionaires had fulfilled the requirement.

He was speaking at a workshop on the growth and yield of
Indonesian forests held by the ministry in cooperation with the
German-funded Deutsche Gesellschaft Fr Technische Zusammenarbeit
(GTZ).

"I hope that this workshop will be useful for forestry
officials and forest concessionaires in managing forest in an
environmentally sustainable manner." (gis)