Jakarta, Ekuatorial — A national joint team announced that 17 companies in Riau did not comply to regulations causing massive forest and land fires, in Jakarta, on Friday (10/10).

The National Joint Team on Company Compliance conducted an audit towards six districts/cities, — Bengkalis, Siak, Indragiri Hilir, Dumai city, Rokan Hilir, Meranti islands — and 17 plantations and forestry companies between July 1st and August 25th. The audit serves as an evaluation towards government as well as companies on how they prevent forest fires in their respective areas.

Riau province was chosen for the compliance audit because it harbored 93.6 percent out of 12,541 hotspots from Jan 2 to March 13 this year. In addition, most of those hotspots were recorded in peatlands.

The audit showed that five plantation companies did not comply. Meanwhile, in forestry sector, one company with poor compliance level, ten were categorized not-comply, and one lack comply.

In the district/city category, Bengkalis district fell to comply category, Siak district was categorized as mild and four districts, –Dumai, Rokan Hilir, Indragiri Hilir, and Meranti islands –, categorized as lack comply.

Based on the result, head of the joint team, Bambang Hero Saharjo, said that all companies and local government were lacking responsibilities in monitoring, preventing and tackling forest fires in their areas. “From this result, we will apply appropriate law enforcement for those cases,” said Saharjo.

Meanwhile, Heru Prasetyo, head of REDD+ agency (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), said that tackling forest fires was crucial in the effort to curb Indonesia’s emission level.

Indonesia has committed to cut its emission level 26 percent by 2020 and 41 percent with international help by 2020.

Furthermore, he said that through audit instrument, evaluation towards companies and government will be much easier and clearer. “We would be able to formulate the best solution to tackle these forest fires and discover the real culprit for this annual disaster,” he said adding that they will conduct similar audit in Central Kalimantan.

The team comprise of REDD+ agency, ministry of forestry, ministry of environment, ministry of agriculture, Riau local government, and Presidential Working Unit for the Supervision and Management of Development (UKP4). Januar Hakam.

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