AT age 55, Bestari Radens reputation for being an environmental activist and chairperson of the Traditional Aceh Society Organization may have come back to haunt him. On March 23 Raden was arrested by military officers on charges of instigating and carrying out the burning down of the office of a forestry company. Raden was also a member of the Leuser Mountain Range-Ladia Galaska highway review project.

Raden was also accused of acting as a comman