Entangled in a Wood Game

Suspected of tolerating the smuggling of illegal logs, a former Sorong Police chief has been detained, while a former Papua Police deputy chief is facing accusations in the same case.

December 14, 2004

NO one must have changed roles as quickly as Asst. Chief Comr. Abdul Nazir Faizal has. Last year, when he was still the Chief of Sorong Police Resort (Polres), Papua, he was used to sending criminals to detention cells. Now, since Wednesday last week, the 38-year-old officer has had to assume the role of detainee himself. He has to suffer the suffocating air of a cell in the Sorong penitentiary.

There, Faizal is accompanied by four of his fo

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