The Plunder of Ketapang
April 15, 2008
IT is indeed gratifying to see two of the nation’s senior officials standing shoulder to shoulder in the effort to stamp out the plunder of Indonesia’s tropical rainforests. Traveling together to examine the Ketapang illegal logging case in West Kalimantan, National Police Chief, General Sutanto, and Forestry Minister, M.S. Kaban, declared their determination to severely punish members of the so far “untouchable” syndicates responsible f
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