Nature Alert: Indonesia Police Contact Interpol on Fugitive

Saturday 6 June 2009

Indonesia Police Contact Interpol on Fugitive

Tuesday, 02 June, 2009 | 17:44 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: North Sumatra Police said it has contacted the local interpol representative a day after an Australian paper reported six of the 16 criminals hiding in Australia sought by the Interpol were Indonesian.

Spokesman for North Sumatra Police Senior Commisioner Baharudin Djafar said North Sumatra police have requested the National Centre Bureau-Interpol to confirm the report.

One of the fugitives were Adelin Lis who was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Supreme Court for corruption on Juli 2008. He was tried for illegal logging charges and corruption inNorth Sumatra and ordered to return state losses of Rp 119.8 billion and US$ 2.93 million and pay Rp 1 billion fine.

National Central Bureau-Interpol said to extradite Adelin if Australian authorities found him in the country. However Brigadier General Halba Rubis Nugroho, secretary of the NCB-Interpol in Jakarta said "it would take longer time if he changed nationality."

Other Indonesian fugitives reportedly hiding in Australia were Henry Guntoro Lioe (31), Elriva Krisnawati Lioe (35), Lioe Oij Min (37), Mangirim Napitupulu (51), and Lisbet Aprilawaty Sinaga (43). They were impicated for scam and money laundering.

SOETANA MONANG HASIBUAN | CORNILA DESYANA | SUTARTO

http://www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2009/06/02/brk,20090602-179479,uk.html

Hall of Shame for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Palm Oil Industry.

Nothing can prepare one for the sight of the systematic extermination of orangutans by the government of Indonesia.

Look at the photos and news articles on these pages in the context of a statement the President made to the media on 10th December 2007.

“In the last 35 years about 50,000 orangutans are estimated to have been lost as their habitats shrank. If this continues, this majestic creature will likely face extinction by 2050,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.

“The fate of the orangutan is a subject that goes to the heart of sustainable forests … To save the orangutan we have to save the forest.”

Statements like these are most welcome, but unless backed up by action, such words fall on deaf ears within the Ministry of Forestry....who are busy granting licences to cut down the very forests the President says they should protect!

When you think you are to busy to help, please could you reflect for a moment on .........

The following extract refers to environmental problems in general. I just hope you find it as thought provoking and relevant to orangutans as I have.

"This is such a shocking and unpalatable fact that most people deny it, or they just don't want to think about it. They believe as individuals, they can do little about it, so push it to the back of their minds. But I can't do that.

When something has to be done, we need to do it. It doesn't matter how big the challenge is or how hard the solution; if I know something is wrong, and I am in a position to help, I will do my best to make it right." Duncan Bannatyne, successful British businessman.