The pious platitudes voiced by so many of our leaders to mark Environment Day, June 5, are still fresh in our memories. Meanwhile, it is business as usual in the forests, and environmental destruction continues unabated all around us. In Riau, South Kalimantan, and Central Kalimantan, vast tracks of forest are being destroyed by raging fires, most of them lit deliberately, while no action is taken against the perpetrators. In fact, the authoritie