Director general of law enforcement at the ministry, Dwi Januanto Nugroho, said that the joint team comprised officials from the Kalimantan Forestry Law Enforcement Agency, the West Kalimantan Provincial Environment and Forestry Service, the Pontianak Region X Sustainable Forest Management Agency, and the Kalimantan Forest Fire Control Agency.
The team had been monitoring forest fires at two companies holding forest utilization business permits (PBPH): PT FWL in Sambas district and PT CMI in Sanggau district, he informed.
“The sealing of these two companies is a follow-up to recent forestry supervision efforts,” Nugroho said on Thursday.
He informed that the team detected a fire at the PT FWL PBPH concession, which burned around 400 hectares of forests between July 19–22, 2025, near the Indonesia-Malaysia border.
The team also recorded a fire within the PT CMI PBPH concession, with the burned area estimated at 30 hectares, between July 14 and 24, he added.
The team sealed off both areas and installed fire monitoring signs, he informed.
It also inspected forest fire infrastructure and reported on forest fire prevention activities, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and the concession owners’ preparedness for forest fire management, he said.
He added that the sealing and signage installation were in response to the Minister of Forestry’s directive to improve forest fire management, including strengthening law enforcement efforts against fires in forest areas and the working areas of permit-holding companies.
In the same statement, head of the Kalimantan Forestry Law Enforcement Agency, Leonardo Gultom, informed that his agency is continuously monitoring hotspots and forest fires in West Kalimantan to prevent transboundary haze, or smoke pollution that spreads across borders to neighboring countries.
“Violation of the law, administrative, criminal, and civil sanctions can be imposed by Law Number 41 of 1999 concerning Forestry,” he said.
The Kalimantan Forestry Law Enforcement Agency is also encouraging all elements of society to actively participate in preserving forests and monitor and report forestry violations, particularly forest fires.
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