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Corruption in the Indonesian Forest Industry Costs Government US$2 billion Anually

Date: December 17, 2009

Corruption in Indonesia's lucrative forestry industry costs the government US$2 billion annually, Human Rights Watch said in a new report: Wild Money: The Human Rights Consequences of Illegal Logging and Corruption in Indonesia's Forestry Sector. It found that more than half of all Indonesian timber from 2003 through 2006 was logged illegally

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Download Wild Money: The Human Rights Consequences of Illegal Logging and Corruption in Indonesia's Forestry Sector at:

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/indonesia1209webwcover.pdf



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