Playground for Poachers

It was twilight when gunshots shattered the stillness of evening at the time when the Muezzin was calling the faithful to perform the dusk prayer. Ten men armed with four hunting rifles were directing their shots at four forest rangers patrolling the vast expanse of the Way Kambas National Park. Though outnumbered and armed with only one rifle and batons the rangers had courageously returned fire. They, however, suffered a casualty when Suparmin ...