Reward offered for illegal loggers

Reward offered for illegal loggers

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Tongkuno district chief La Ode
Kardini has offered a Rp 100,000 (US$12) reward for any
information leading to the arrest of illegal loggers in his
Southeast Sulawesi district in Muna regency.

He has urged the public not to be afraid to come forward and
share their information, assuring that their identities would be
kept confidential.

About 350 cubic meters of logs from past arrests were piled on
the roadside waiting to be auctioned off, Kardini said, adding
that the perpetrators were caught red-handed. The confiscated
logs are of the high quality but rare hardwood type.

Tongkuno district as well as Muna regency are seeing their
forests shrink due to illegal loggers.

Muna Regent Ridwan said that illegal loggers were targeting
forests where hardwood grew. -- Antara