Stolen from Indonesia

Malaysia has been charged with receiving stolen timber from Indonesia. Greenpeace provided evidence to prove the charge.

March 9, 2004

TWO environmental organizations, Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), have charged Malaysia at an international conference on biodiversity in Kuala Lumpur with receiving stolen wood from Indonesia.

The two environmental groups presented evidence in writing and in video recordings at the conference in February to show how meranti and ramin wood had been smuggled from Indonesia into Malaysia to be re-exported to other

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