PETALING JAYA: The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which uncovered the recent spate of illegal imports of Indonesian logs via the coastal jetties of Muar and Batu Pahat, has welcomed the Government's latest move to check the smuggling of the wood.
EIA investigator Sam Lawson said he believed the new measure – a ban on any timber measuring over 387sq cm – would plug the loophole in an earlier ban on Indonesian logs, which did not cover roughly squared logs.
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