Illegally felled logs found in Jambi

JAMBI: Jambi provincial administration's forestry office is investigating the discovery of some 60,000 illegally felled logs as part of its efforts to curb illegal logging activities in the province.

"The discovery (of the logs) was made based on a tip-off," head of the forestry office Gatot Moeryanto, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

The logs are suspected to have been taken from national parks in three regencies: Batanghari, Tebo and Sarolangun.

Gatot said the logs were to have been sawed at illegal mills in the regencies. "There are many illegal sawmills operating in the three regencies," he said. -- JP