A Speck in The Jungle

ILLEGAL loggers in the Papua forest sell blocks of Merbau timber for Rp25,000. The same piece of wood costs 100 times that in China. So, who pockets the profit? Police are currently trying to trace the illegal logging proceeds of timber tycoon Adelin Lis.

Every year, loggers smuggle out 300,000 cubic meters of Merbau timber, worth Rp1.98 trillion. Yet, this is only two-thirds of the amount smuggled by timber tycoon Adelin Lis from the Batang Gadi

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