Walhi seeks environmental tribunal

Walhi seeks environmental tribunal

PALU, Central Sulawesi: The Indonesian Forum for the
Environment (Walhi) urged the government on Sunday to set up an
environment tribunal to deal with environmental destruction.

"It (the environment tribunal) cannot be postponed," Walhi
activist Harun said here on Sunday.

The idea of setting up an environment tribunal was initially
brought up by State Minister for the Environment Nabiel Makarim
last year in reaction to the disappointing legal process against
perpetrators of environmental damage.

During a workshop on the formation of an environment tribunal
in Jakarta on Oct. 10 last year, Makarim said many environmental
cases brought to the general court had not been satisfactorily
settled.

Harun said the absence of strict legal measures was to blame
for the environmental destruction during the past two decades. --
Antara