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View all search resultsForestry Ministry to strengthen enforcement at Tesso Nilo National Park
The govenrment will continue rehabilitating the Tesso Nilo National Park in Riau while settlers refuse to voluntarily relocate without any compensation from the state.
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Forest rangers and policemen pose in front of a demolished illegal structure inside the Tesso Nilo National Park in Pelalawan regency, Riau, on June 10, 2025. The personnel are part of the Garuda Task Force deployed to rehabilitate forest areas. (Antaranews.com/Forestry Ministry)
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he Forestry Ministry and the Garuda Task Force will strengthen enforcement steps at Tesso Nilo National Park to rehabilitate 3.7 million hectares of forest that have been misused.
“The Tesso Nilo National Park is the President’s strategic target in rehabilitating forest areas and the results will be announced on Aug. 17,” the ministry’s law enforcement director general, Dwi Januanto, said in Jakarta on Friday, as quoted by Antara news agency.
“We’ve received support from all elements in the ministry [...] to rehabilitate forests through a comprehensive and humanistic approach.”
The Garuda Task Force was established by Government Regulation No. 5/2025 on forest areas enforcement (PKH). The task force includes personnel from the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police.
The task force has started operations at the 81,739 ha Tesso Nilo National Park. About 40,000 ha of the national park’s area have been opened and illegally planted with oil palms.
The government is aiming to rehabilitate the forest area in Pelalawan regency, Riau, through a labor-intensive rehabilitation scheme, restoring the ecosystem and comprehensive law enforcement.
Dwi emphasized the importance of cross-sectoral support to overcome the lack of forest rangers who are not sufficient to secure Indonesia’s vast forests.
