Putting Out the Fire
Riau Police has dropped investigations into 15 companies accused of letting fires run rampant on concessions. At the environment ministry, investigations have made it to civil courts.
August 2, 2016
APPROXIMATELY 50 people thronged the entrance of the Riau Police headquarters on Monday last week. Waving a number of banners and posters, protesters castigated the police's decision to drop investigations into the source of Riau forest fires, urging police to reopen the cases.
Deputy Coordinator of the Riau Forest Rescue Network (Jikalahari) Made Ali said police had wronged the people of Riau. "The police have forgotten that a lot of people here we
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