THREE female researchers are crowded around a glass-covered table. They skillfully fill small tubes with liquid which drips from a pipette. Plant samples taken from Mount Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, are inside the tubes. The researchers were making extracts to take samples of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

This was one activity which was going on last Tuesday at the Biosystematic Laboratory, Center for Biological Research, Indonesian I