Indonesia: Authorities will burn down all oil palm plantations illegally sited within Tanjung Batu protected forest
Berau, East Kalimantan. Forestry officials in Berau have vowed to burn down all oil palm plantations found inside the district’s Tanjung Batu protected forest, in response to findings that the operators razed more than 200 hectares of land in the restricted zone to set up the estates.
Heri Suparno, head of forest protection at the district forestry office, said on Sunday that oil palm estates covered at least 30 hectares of land inside Tanjung Batu, two-thirds of which was ready for harvesting.