ALIMUDDIN carefully picks his way along a narrow trail lined by tall grasses and banana trees, his gun slung over his shoulder as he leads a group of 10 soldiers and police towards a patch of primary rainforest in this, the Sunga Wain reserve, near the coast of East Kalimantan.

Unlike his colleagues in other parts of the country, Alimuddin's quarry isn't a group of separatist militia or Al Qaeda members, but local farmers and loggers illegal