Papua's Timber King
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Hundreds of Labora's employees have occupied his timber factory and barricaded the site, to prevent police access. They feel the price of their auctioned logs in Surabaya was too low.
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The sound of chainsaws can no longer be heard at the timber processing site in Sorong, unlike when Tempo went there four months ago. The usually noisy molding machines to smooth and polish the wood, now sit idle, covered in plastic. The endless stream of smoke from the wood oven's chimney has stopped. Each day, the factory would process about 40 cubic meters of wood, to make it hard and durable.
Last week, when Tempo again visited the factory owne
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