The following posting is from Hayden who is at our Forest Defenders Camp. Learn more about the camp and threats to Indonesian forests.
Yesterday afternoon we received a visit from 22 members of various regional and local police and police intelligence officers. They hung around the camp all afternoon, taking pictures, asking us questions, and speaking with some of our Indonesian campmates. One of them also helped himself to Frode’s last piece of chocolate, which Frode wasn’t too happy about. I grabbed my camera and asked if we could get some pictures with them, to which they happily agreed.
Finally at around 7pm they departed, but they’ve left two armed officers here at camp to keep an eye on us. We’re making every effort to explain to all the various law enforcement agencies why we’re here, and that our work here is also about helping the Indonesian goverment. Hopefully this message can get through to the right people, and we can continue our work unabated.
And a big Hi from Rob, he really is the greatest guy
