Nusa Dua (Antara Bali) - The Environment Ministry will soon bring seven companies to justice for allegedly destroying the environment.
"We are in the middle of gathering evidence," Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said here on Wednesday after opening a national working meeting of his ministry to mark the 25th anniversary of the environmental impact analysis (Amdal) system.
The seven companies consisted of five fisheries companies in East Java and two mining companies in Kalimantan, he said.
The companies were strongly believed to have destroyed the environment based on the implementation of the ministry's program to evaluate companies' performance in terms of environment management. The companies would be brought to justice having twice received black labels, he said.
"The seven companies have twice received black labels," he said.
Under the program, companies receive black, red, blue, green and gold labels according to the level of their environment management. Companies that met environmental impact analysis requirements are given blue labels.
"Those receiving black labels have been registered. If they have twice received black labels they will be brought to justice," he said.
The minister added however that he was pessimistic that the companies brought to justice would receive severe penalties.
"To make things worse, when their case is referred to a court they receive light penalties and are ordered to pay small fines," he said.
To make environment-destroying companies subject to heavy penalties, he said, his ministry would sign a memorandum of understanding with the Attorney General's Office and the National Police.
He said since early this year his ministry had evaluated the environment management performance of 680 companies with 25 percent of them receiving black and red labels.
The ministry had set itself the target of evaluating 1,000 companies' environmental management performance in 2012 and would propose a fine of up to Rp90 billion for a company found destroying the environment.
"The money will be returned to the people whose environment was destroyed," he said.(*)
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"We are in the middle of gathering evidence," Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said here on Wednesday after opening a national working meeting of his ministry to mark the 25th anniversary of the environmental impact analysis (Amdal) system.
The seven companies consisted of five fisheries companies in East Java and two mining companies in Kalimantan, he said.
The companies were strongly believed to have destroyed the environment based on the implementation of the ministry's program to evaluate companies' performance in terms of environment management. The companies would be brought to justice having twice received black labels, he said.
"The seven companies have twice received black labels," he said.
Under the program, companies receive black, red, blue, green and gold labels according to the level of their environment management. Companies that met environmental impact analysis requirements are given blue labels.
"Those receiving black labels have been registered. If they have twice received black labels they will be brought to justice," he said.
The minister added however that he was pessimistic that the companies brought to justice would receive severe penalties.
"To make things worse, when their case is referred to a court they receive light penalties and are ordered to pay small fines," he said.
To make environment-destroying companies subject to heavy penalties, he said, his ministry would sign a memorandum of understanding with the Attorney General's Office and the National Police.
He said since early this year his ministry had evaluated the environment management performance of 680 companies with 25 percent of them receiving black and red labels.
The ministry had set itself the target of evaluating 1,000 companies' environmental management performance in 2012 and would propose a fine of up to Rp90 billion for a company found destroying the environment.
"The money will be returned to the people whose environment was destroyed," he said.(*)
Editor : Masuki
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