Complicit and Obedient
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Illegal loggers in Ketapang control the local bureaucracy. The provincial police chief was deceived by his own men, who reported only what he wanted to hear.
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THIRTEEN motorboats are lined up along the banks of the Tembilok River in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. The boats have not sailed yet, because their captains have been detained, and the contents—wood of the bengkirai, meranti, and kruing varieties—have been taken as evidence by National Police Headquarters.
Some of the stacks of logs can be found at a number of locations along the river. Six rolls of police ribbon—each roll being 500 meters l
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