"Don't let Almira witness the tiger's extinction!"

So read one of thousands of tweets that flooded then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's inbox in late September. It was a reference to his granddaughter Almira Tunggadewi Yudhoyono and a promise he had made in 2011 to dedicate the remainder of his term to protecting Indonesia's rainforests.

"I don't want to have to explain to my granddaughter Almira, that we, in our time, could not save the forests and