Upholding the law to protect Indonesia’s biodiversity

The USAID-supported Changes for Justice (C4J) Project hosted the first integrated environmental training programme for the Indonesian justice sector. Our team joined police, prosecutors and judges from across the country (Papua, Aceh, West Kalimantan) for broad-ranging discussions on how to leverage the criminal justice system to fairly address leading threats to biodiversity. This included contributions from a range of national experts, including from the Supreme Court, Ministry of Forestry and Enviroment, and Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center.

The workshop included discussions ranging from environmental ethics to money laundering, forensic analysis and widlife trafficking. CIFOR contributed information on Mutual Legal Assistance and environmental valuation to the training materials. Special thanks to David Anderson, Rino Subagyo and their colleagues for the kind invitation to this important event.

Read more about the workshop in the Jakarta Post and from the C4J website.

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