Six nabbed for illegal logging

PALEMBANG, South Sumatra: South Sumatra Provincial Police have apprehended six people for illegal logging in Musi Banyuasin regency, South Sumatra.

They were accused of clearing some 100 hectares of forest in the regency and using the land for an oil palm plantation, said Sr. Comr. Abusopah Ibrahim, the spokesman of South Sumatra Provincial Police. The six were arrested on Friday. -- Antara