Forestry Minister Malam Sambat Kaban: The Provincial Police Chief must accept responsibility

August 1, 2006

The disappearance of Gusti Sjaifuddin, the accused charged with illegal logging who was investigated by the East Kalimantan Police, has angered Forestry Minister Malam Sambat Kaban. When he was arrested, he should have been sent to Jakarta, he said. Indeed, it is not easy to put an illegal logger in jail. Of the 23 cases tried in Papua, for instance, almost half of the suspects were set free. Almost all law enforcement officials, when they see mo

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