ILLEGAL LOGGING

In general, the practice of  illegal logging are all cut timber activities, buy, or sell the wood in a way not legitimate. Practice with a way to cut down on areas That are banned but a legal principle with a letter Issued by Local Officials as a result of collusion. Illegal status occur cans During transport, Including the export process by Providing false information to customs, Until before wood sold in the legal market. As a result of illegal logging in Indonesian forests vulnerable phase, the damage is at a critical point. All types of forests to illegal logging in Indonesia has approximately 7.2 hectares of forest per minute, or 3.8 million hectares per year. This not only threatens biodiversity is in it but Also earnest cause a negative chain effect on the balance of nature Itself.

According to Dahlan, the total losses from illegal logging per year reached Rp 30 trillion, or Rp 2.5 trillion per month. This loss is four times the budget for the forestry sector. By saving 10 percent or USD $ 3 trillion of the total losses per year of illegal logging, for example, and vice presidential candidate cans promise the people That the cost of elementary and secondary education free. Not only that, speculatively Also cans of open employment for 220 thousand workers more.

If you cans save 50 percent or Rp 15 trillion of the total losses per year, not just the costs of education are free, but Also the cost of health services in the district EACH cans be fully borne by the government. Of course, cans Also function as a tactical fund prevention of dengue fever outbreak has claimed the which it. Rescue Would Also create a structure of forest-based enterprises cans That Provide employment for More Than 500 thousand inhabitants.

With the reduction in Indonesia's forest cover, most of the region of Indonesia has changed from the region most vulnerable to Disasters, both catastrophic droughts, floods and landslides. According to the National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management of Data, 2003, from 1998 Until mid 2003, there have been 647 incidents of Recorded Disasters in Indonesia by 2022 fatalities and loss of billions of dollars, WHERE 85 percent of these are floods and landslides Disasters That the caused damage to the forest.