Who is stealing the teak trees?

Who is stealing the teak trees?

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Muna Regent Ridwan ordered local
police to release 200 villagers suspected of stealing teak logs
from the forest in the regency and to drop the case against them.

"It is strange and unfair that the police have investigated
the 200 villagers while timber businessmen who had carried logs
freely to their sawmills are set free," Antara quoted him as
saying here on Saturday.

He said he had no objection to the ongoing investigation into
the villagers but the police should be fair in enforcing the law.

The 200 villagers were netted in a police operation to
eliminate rampant illegal logging in the regency.

Thousands of hectares of forest area have been left barren
because of the rampant illegal logging in the regency over the
last three years. --Antara