Hook, Line and Sinker

A trawler skipper has been imprisoned in Bengkulu for poaching. Still, the courts have bigger fish yet to fry.

July 24, 2001

RUSTAM Effendi Hutagalung weeps in regret. The 47-year-old skipper of a trawler operating in the waters of Baa island off the cost of Bengkulu has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison. The Bengkulu district court, presided over by Judge Andi Budiman, found Ridwan guilty of poaching. "Had I known I would end up in jail, I would rather have remained a construction worker like before," Rustam laments in his cell at the Bengkulu...

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