IDNEWSNOW.COM, Jakarta – The federal government will not move residents in the location of Komodo National forest, according to Wiratno as the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) Director-General of Natural Resource and Environment Conservation.
” There will be no moving of homeowners. They will not be relocated or evicted. That idea does not exist in the principle of the national park management,” said Wiratno in a virtual interview on Friday, February 19, 2021.
The ministry included the neighborhood living space in the unique zone on Komodo Island covering an area of 310.09 hectares. Wiratno claimed that the federal government was identified to enhance the well-being of local neighborhoods through conservation collaborations.
” The program for the next 5 years will concentrate on community-based ecotourism in 3 villages, which will be developed together with the national park, the Labuan Bajo and Flores Tourism Authority, and Trisakti Tourism College,” Wiratno explained.
The Indonesian Forum for the Environment or Walhi of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) previously urged the federal government to stop the advancement job for the Komodo National Park tourism location in Labuan Bajo.
Walhi was highly concerned that the job might threaten the stability of the endemic animal community on Flores Island in addition to the survival of Komodo dragons and the living of neighborhoods.
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