Mongabay: A coalition of anti-corruption and environmental NGOs has urged Indonesias anti-graft body to investigate cases of corruption in the natural resources sector. Corruption linked to the forestry, mining and plantation industries leads to billions of dollars in state losses each year, the coalition said, with the countrys natural resources being used as a virtually bottomless piggy bank by corrupt officials.
The embezzlement of regional budgets can be tackled, Im sure of that, said Tama S. Langkun,...