ENGLISH VERSION
KOBA atensipublik.com – The Task Force, which was formed based on Presidential Regulation No. 5/2025 on 21 January 2025 based on sources to function as the front guard in restoring and disciplining forest areas in Indonesia, seems to have to work extra hard, Friday 1 August 2025.
This is because based on the results of this media’s field investigations, in the Central Bangka district alone there are at least four locations of residents’ gardens that have been plundered for their tin sand content.
“Oh, we only participate in dismounting the tools, sir. As for who is the coordinator, he is said to be from a certain law enforcement unit,” said Mrs Jumiah, a resident of Simpang C Lubuk in Central Bangka while taking care of her two children.
Moving to another coordinate in Krasak, Central Bangka, or to Nadi laut in this location, it is strongly suspected that there is involvement of Perlang villagers. ‘If I am a resident of Perlang village, sir, I can make a living,’ he said cheerfully.
When sharpened about the legal aspects of how they could be desperate to mine there and where they sold the tin sand, they immediately became silent and showed faces worried about their safety.
‘I can’t answer that question sir, sorry I don’t dare,’ they said frankly.
The other two locations, namely, the sea pulse and the nursery garden, are not much different from the two initial locations in Krasak and Simpang C.
The news source who objected to the inclusion of his name in the news, let’s call him Jaka Tingkir. He believes that there is an element of omission from the village or sub-district government regarding the freedom of residents to trespass on other people’s PRIVATE RIGHTS. Where this clearly violates article 167 of the Criminal Code and criminal article 158 of Law No. 3/2021, it states that people who carry out mining without a permit are sentenced to a maximum imprisonment of 5 years and a maximum fine of IDR 100,000,000,000.
‘I personally see that there is a pattern of the location points that we visited together, if you look at it, there are regional connections with each other and strangely it only targets gardens with the same owners,’ said Jaka Tingkir.
The problem is, if activities like this are allowed or taken for granted. Then it is not impossible that social anarchy of open friction between fellow citizens is just waiting for the time to explode. The rich have their property brutally seized by the poor, the poor feel that is the only way to fill their middle village, exacerbated by the ‘silence’ of the legal agencies in stages, perfecto.
Until this news was published, the media had tried to confirm across sectors, but still did not get the maximum response and will continue to strive for balanced news.(Team Investigation)
