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Hundreds of illegal prawn farms shut down
After giving numerous warnings to hundreds of illegal prawn farms set up along Yogyakartaâs beaches, Bantul administration has finally shut them down
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fter giving numerous warnings to hundreds of illegal prawn farms set up along Yogyakarta's beaches, Bantul administration has finally shut them down.
'They were still operating despite the warnings. But we shut them down without exerting force,' Bantul Public Order Agency head of enforcement unit, Anjar Arintaka, said Wednesday.
The agency is cooperating with local police, the military, public works agency, environment agency and fisheries agency personnel.
Coastal residents have filed protests against the farms since last year, saying that they threw waste into sea and disrupted coastal plantations.
Anjar said that the authorities had given the farmers the chance to save their prawns. (***)
