THE joint team may perhaps have been negligent. Although busy pursuing illegal loggers—known locally as cukong—smuggling forest timber from Ketapang to Malaysia’s Sarawak state, they have been inattentive within the country. A Tempo source revealed that the dispatch of thousands of cubic meters of illegal timber from Kalimantan to ports in Java has yet to be stopped.

They are not afraid of raids by the National Police HQ or the Forestry De