Govt sets up special forest ranger force

Tue, 29 Nov 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: The Ministry of Forestry has formed a special forest
ranger police force to provide more personnel to combat illegal
logging.

The ministry said in a media release on Monday that 300
members of the Quick Response Forest Ranger Unit (SPORC) had been
recruited from Papua, West Irian Jaya, South Sulawesi, East
Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Jambi, South
Sumatra, Riau and North Sumatra.

By 2010, the ministry hopes to have recruited 1,500 special
forest rangers.

The government currently has some 8,000 regular forest
rangers, 3,100 of them are serving in Jakarta, where trees, let
alone illegal logging, are difficult to find. -- Antara

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