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View all search resultsTask force starts to relocate settlers from Tesso Nilo National Park
The government tried to maintain biodiversity while ensuring the balance between environmental protection and public economic interests.
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Two excavators symbolically fell palm oil trees on Dec. 20, 2025, in Bagan Limau village, Ukui district, Pelalawan regency, Riau. The felling of palm oil trees marked the relocation of 228 families owning some 600 hectares of land out of the national park. (Courtesy of Riau provincial administration./-)
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he Forest Enforcement Task Force (PKH) started to relocate settlers from Tesso Nilo National Park, starting from Bagan Limau village, Ukui district, Pelalawan regency, Riau, on Saturday.
Several high-ranking officials attended the inaugural relocation, such as Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni, Agrarian and Spatial Planning Deputy Minister Ossy Dermawan, acting Riau Governor SF Hariyanto, Tuanku Tambusan/XIX Military Command chief Maj. Gen. Agus Jadi Waluyo, task force chief Maj. Gen. Dody Triwinarto, Pelalawan Regent H Zukri and Pelalawan Police chief John Louis.
The settlers are being relocated to the former concession of an Industrial Forestry Plantation (HTI). The settlers received legitimacy and legal certainty to cultivate palm oil outside the national park in the form of a decree on community forestry (HKM). Plots of former HTI land given to settlers will be categorized as social forestry.
“Insya Allah [God willing], we will register those plots of land as Agrarian-Reform Object Land [TORA]. So in the future the settlers will have land certificates,” Raja Juli said.
“The people are being relocated outside Tesso Nilo so that the national park is conserved and the ecosystem is maintained. Therefore, the forest will again be a haven for elephants, tapir, deer and other animals.”
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The relocation ceremony was marked with the symbolic handover of land plot certificates owned by settlers inside the national park to the state by settlers to Ossy. Raja Juli then handed over HKM decrees to three farmer groups.
