Awaiting Prajogo's D-Day

Prajogo's detention is expected to reveal irregularities in forest management and mark a fresh start to set to rights the collection and allocation of reforestation funds (DR to you and me).

April 24, 2001

Last year, Nurmahmudi Ismail, then minister of forestry and plantations, had a story about how he was subjected to a ploy related to money worth US$2 billion, or Rp15 trillion. He suspected certain parties had tried to `buy' him for Rp25 billion in return for his scrapping of a probe into alleged DR manipulation. Besides him, many other people, including officials of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) and those in the inner circle of President Abd...

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