Pelaihari, South Kalimantan (Antaranews Kalsel)- The Intelligence Unit of Pelaihari District Military Command or Kodim 1009 on Wednesday at around 17.00 captured two truckloads of ironwood.
In addition to capturing large trucks load with ironwood (locally known as ulin) in the form of plates, the intelligence also arrested the driver of the car.
"The truck were driven to the office of District Military Command 1009 Pelaihari (65 Km east branch) to be secured," said District Commanders (Dandim) Lelkol Inf Anhar Premana.
However, said the middle-rank officer of the army, one of the driver escaped at the time of interception in the village of Asam-Asam (125 km east of Banjarmasin) Subdistrict Jorong, Tanah Laut.
In fact, according to Dandim Pelaihari 1009, members of the Intel Unit attempted to be bribed by the messenger of illegal timber owner by Rp30 million to transport passes.
He said two trucks loaded with 18 cubic meters ironwood with a length of two meters and a diameter of 20x20 cm in the form of plates. The rare wood is planned to be carried to Liang Anggang, Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan.
Military Command not only confiscated ironwood without documents, but also captured a dump truck with forged license plate covered with yellow paper sticker as the base and the black sticker for writing numbers.
"Original license plate number is DA 2017 TL, but covered with a new fake number of DA 1250 TL," he said.
"To further process the truck handed over to the Police Resort of Tala," said Anhar.
