"Papuan traditions are not the same as those in other areas"

April 12, 2005

LOGGING issues have placed Papua Governor, J.P. Solossa, at odds with Forestry Minister M.S. Kaban. It began with the Forestry Minister's criticism of Solossa's policy of issuing IPKMA (License to Cut Down Traditional People's Trees). According to Kaban the policy is wrong, that it encouraged illegal logging in Papua province. "In Papua, there are many licenses that are not in line with mechanisms regulated by laws and government regulati

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