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Indonesian law enforcers call for financial approach to fight illegal logging
by Lusia Arumingtyas on 6 May 2021
Law enforcement officials in Indonesia have called for using anti-money-laundering statutes to go after illegal loggers.
Illegal logging is the most common environmental crime currently handled by the country’s forestry ministry, but enforcement tends to focus on the perpetrators on the ground.
By treating illegal timber as a commodity, say officials from the Attorney General’s Office and the anti-money-laundering agency, enforcers can take a financial crimes approach that also goes after those perpetrators higher up the trafficking chain.
They also identified addressing corruption as a key step in tackling illegal logging, noting that perpetrators are known to bribe officials.