FOR Arifin it began as a dream come true. First he was accepted as a government employee at the Central Sulawesi Forestry Office paid on an honorarium basis. Two years he later was promoted to full employee status as a forest ranger at the Lore Lindu National Park. But it wasn't long before the disaster struck.

The 27-year-old Arifin and his team of forest rangers were on patrol one afternoon in September last year when they came upon two tru