Jakarta, July 31 -- A joint forestry supervisory team comprising officials from the Ministry of Forestry and several agencies sealed two concessions in West Kalimantan province after forest fires ripped through 400 hectares of land near the Indonesia-Malaysia border.

Director general of law enforcement at the ministry, Dwi Januanto Nugroho, said that the joint team comprised officials from the Kalimantan Forestry Law Enforcement Agency, the West Kalimantan Provincial Environment and Forestry Service, the Pontianak Region X Sustainable Forest Management Agency, and the Kalimantan Forest Fire Control Agency.

The team had been monitoring forest fires at two companies holding forest utilization business permits (PBPH): PT FWL in Sambas dist...