THE documents are still stacked high in the filing cabinets of the Riau Provincial Police. Besides photos and photocopies of licenses, there are also valuation documents for timber worth trillions of rupiah. The long-untouched files contain evidence implicating 14 companies with illegal logging in Riau. The investigations were halted on 22 December 2008.

This is now all the police have to go on if the cases are ever reopened. The evidence origin