Seizing Forest Timber for the 'Big Bosses'

July 31, 2001

It was only four in the morning but some people in Patai, a village in Cempaga, East Kotawaringin regency, Central Kalimantan were already busy preparing their logging gear. Imanurahman, 30, the head of an illegal logging group comprising 10 laborers, was on an open truck checking the gear. That day they were going into the forest, some 90 kilometers away from their village. Axes, short machetes, chainsaws, pickaxes and ropes were ready for t

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