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Hardly Anything Right With Wood Shipment in Surabaya
Antara | January 30, 2012

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Police in Surabaya have seized two containers of processed wood believed to be sourced from illegally logged trees

Adj. Sr. Comr. Anom Wibowo, the chief of the Tanjung Perak Port Police, said on Sunday that the seizure was made following an anonymous report about the shipment, which arrived last week from Sulawesi.

“Upon checking, we were able to confirm that the wood was illegal and we confiscated it,” the officer said.

The containers, seized at the depot of local shipping operator Samudra Raya Indo Lines, were found to hold a combined 35 cubic meters of wood from various tree species.

Anom said that in addition to coming from illegally logged trees, the haul was also two cubic meters more than listed in the cargo manifest.

“Another problem with the documentation that accompanied the shipment is that it lists the wood as logs, whereas what we found inside the containers was different,” he said, adding the wood had already been cut into planks.

Anom said police had not yet named any suspects in the case but planned to question the shipment’s owner soon. He did not identify the owner.

“We won’t just wait around. We’ve already established a special team that has left [for Sulawesi] to investigate the origin of this wood,” he said. “Only after that can we being naming suspects.”

He added that any suspects named could face a raft of charges under the 1999 Forestry Law as well as under two Forestry Ministry decrees on the sale of illegally logged timber.