Legal failings leave illegal loggers unpunished and certified in Indonesia

Mongabay
Feb 2, 2021, 5:55 am238 pts
JAKARTA — Illegal loggers in Indonesia’s remote Papua region have largely evaded any meaningful kind of punishment and continue to operate unimpeded, in what a new report calls a failure by the country’s legal system to crack down on the problem. That’s the finding of a forensic analysis of enforcement…

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