Timber
A disappearing resource

Illegal logging besets Indonesia ... Officials continue granting logging companies licences despite two-year moratorium.

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Illegal logging besets Indonesia ... Officials continue granting logging companies licences despite two-year moratorium.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recently signed a two-year moratorium on new logging concessions and as a result will receive $1bn from Norway as part of a UN-backed bilateral agreement in helping to reduce emissions.

But in secretly filmed footage, Al Jazeera reveals that the reality on the ground paints a different picture where government officials continue to grant hundreds of licenses to mining and logging companies.

Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Borneo.