Indonesia's Ill-equipped Forest Rangers
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Minimum manpower, equipment and funding are making it difficult for Indonesian forest rangers to effectively do their job.
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FOR Arifin it began as a dream come true. First he was accepted as a government employee at the Central Sulawesi Forestry Office paid on an honorarium basis. Two years he later was promoted to full employee status as a forest ranger at the Lore Lindu National Park. But it wasn't long before the disaster struck.
The 27-year-old Arifin and his team of forest rangers were on patrol one afternoon in September last year when they came upon two tru
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