"YOU and your family are finished!” came the threat via the cellphone of Jojo (not his real name) sometime last month. Jojo is an activist working for a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Pekanbaru.

This is not the first time the 35-year-old Jojo—a vocal critic of illegal logging—is getting threats. In the past two years, he has received many. “So far, it has only been by telephone and SMS,” he said, stressing that his name should n