Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister/National Land Agency (BPN) Head Nusron Wahid stated that no further reverification is necessary, as his ministry has already conducted a field verification confirming the company’s legal violation.
Wahid stated here on Tuesday that the palm oil plantation’s certificate will be revoked immediately as part of the ministry’s commitment to preserving the country’s national park area and combating illegal land use.
Speaking to journalists after meeting with lawmakers from the House of Representatives’ Commission II overseeing forestry and agriculture, he noted that the national park is home to wild Sumatran elephants.
As reported earlier, Sumatran forests are habitats for some of the world’s rarest plant species and are among the few remaining landscapes where elephants, tigers, and orangutans coexist.
Sumatra, the world’s sixth-largest island, covers 470 thousand square kilometers and is home to 580 bird species, 201 mammalian species, and more than 15 thousand known plant species.
The Tesso Nilo National Park is home to wild Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus), but forest loss, particularly due to plantation, development projects, and forest fires, has threatened these land mammals.
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Translator: M.Harianto, Rahmad Nasution
Editor: Azis Kurmala
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