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Borneo villagers stand up against chainsaw gangs

Published on 01 May 2005
The Borneo village of Setulang was offered US$300,000 (HK$2.34 million) by loggers who wanted to hack down their trees. The villagers considered the offer, then in a rare stand against the illegal felling that has laid waste to Indonesia's jungles, they refused.
Read more on The Standard - China's Business Newspaper,