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Jakarta collects Rp 120 million in fines from illegal tree-cutting
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Mangrove Forest in Pantai Indah Kapuk. Here, visitors can explore the dense mangrove vegetation or rent a boat to explore the forest by water. (JP/Jessicha Valentina)
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he Jakarta Forestry Agency has recorded that, this year, the city accumulated Rp 120 million (US$9,055) in fines slapped against residents found illegally cutting down trees along the capital's green lanes.
"The total fines were Rp 120 million," the agency’s community development and law enforcement division head, Henri Perez, said on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
He said the fines were collected from seven Jakarta residents in six separate cases of illegal tree-cutting. Three of the cases were in East Jakarta, two cases were in South Jakarta and one was in West Jakarta.
Henri said that the most recent case involved Romadhon Andi Widodo, an East Jakarta resident who was fined for cutting down two trees in front of his shop on Jl. Lubang Buaya in Cipayung.
The Central Jakarta District Court ruled last Friday that he had violated a 2007 regional regulation on public order by cutting down the trees, which were located on a green lane, and ordered him to pay Rp 25 million in fines. (fac)
