Let the Forests Breathe

The government intends to ban logging. Businessmen are getting nervous.

May 28, 2002

The door to the office of the Director General for Forest Production Cultivation, Untung Iskandar, was ajar last week. An expatriate, Jozsef Micski, angrily showed various pictures illustrating the rampant illegal logging which is taking place, sadly enough, in a research forest in Labanan, Berau Regency, East Kalimantan. As Deputy Director at the Forest Liaison Bureau, a European Union donor institution that cares about forests in Indonesia, its

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