BATAM, Riau Islands: Riau Islands Police have arrested and named two senior executives from a Singapore granite mining company with environmental damage as suspects.
The pair from PT KG allegedly destroyed 200 hectares of protected forest during mining on the northern Karimun islands.
The arrests on Thursday night come amid strained relations between the two countries following a ban on sand exports in January.
Indonesia was concerned massive sand quarrying would lead to environmental problems, the disappearance of small outlying islands and erosion of its maritime borders. -- JP
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