THE National Police and the Forestry Department have their own list of illegal loggers. And this is not the first time that this has led to the same problem: people on the police list may not be on the Forestry Department list, or vice versa. The upshot is that some people feel free to claim they have been defamed.

This is what happened to Tingtinghong (hereafter referred to as Ting), who reported Forestry Minister M.S. Kaban to the National Polic