Friday, 28 November, 2008 | 19:34 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Medan:Around 400.000 - 500.000 hectares of protected forest areas in the regencies of South Tapanuli, Central Tapanuli and North Tapanuli will be released to the people. "The area must be opened because people have lived there for many years," said the chief of North Sumatra Forestry Service, James Budiman Siringoringo, in Medan yesterday.
According to James, the North Sumatra Forestry Service will propose releasing the area to the Forestry Department on December 2008.
SOETANA MONANG HASIBUAN
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