JAKARTA (The Jakarata Post/ANN): For the first time in Indonesia, a court has sentenced an illegal miner to multiple crimes in an attempt to create a deterrent effect to curb environmental and forestry crimes.
A district court in Bangka Belitung Islands, a province off the east coast of Sumatra, found Azeman, 44, guilty of two crimes for mining illegally in the protected forest area of Lubuk Besar in the regency.
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