Police foil illegal shipment of timber

Mon, 29 Sep 2003, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: Police said on Sunday that they had managed to foil
an illegal shipment of timber worth Rp 500 million in the
Thousand Islands waters off north Jakarta late last week.

TheDanau Hidayah II, which had been transporting the
650-cubic-meters worth of timber from Central Kalimantan toward
Banten province, did not have the required documents, including
the document of legal forest yield (SKSHH).

"We seized the boat along with the timber and arrested the
boat's captain," said chief of city police for the water and air
division, Adj. Sr. Comr. Haris Kabilah.

The shipment of illegal timber, Haris said, violated Law No.
41, 1999 on forestry article 78, which carries a maximum fine of
Rp 10 billion and maximum imprisonment of five years. --JP.

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