Mercenary Slayings

Police arrest nine people suspected of killing orangutans in East Kalimantan. Every carcass was prized at Rp1 million. The case was unraveled after police investigated the mass slayings.

December 28, 2011

Bones lay scattered on the desk of of a laboratory at Mulawarman University. A skull, arm bones, fangs and bones of fingers. There were at least 10 separate pieces of bone. None of them were intact. "These are the remains of an adult orangutan," said orangutan researcher Yaya Rayadin, as he displayed the remains for Tempo. The white coloring of the bones indicated, Yaya said, the fact that they had not been buried very deep in the ground. "Also, the

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