Hong is Hung

An illegal logging suspect close to a cabinet minister managed to get a license to operate in a forest area.

June 29, 2011

TING Ting Hong is a familiar name to Malem Sambat Kaban. This Malaysian citizen was on the list of 50 illegal loggers issued by the Hutan Lestari I Operation team in mid-2006, when Kaban was the Forestry Minister in the first United Indonesia Cabinet. “He was one of our targets,” he said, on Thursday two weeks ago.

Ting was blacklisted when a joint team from the Forestry Ministry, the police and the Attorney General’s Office captured the M

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