Coal mining is booming in Indonesia due to high demand from India and China. Very often the coal reserves are found in rainforests.<br /><br />When Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, was about to announce a two-year logging ban, mining permits in forests were frozen.<br /><br />But Al Jazeera has found out that ministry of forestry officials hastily issued many permits just before the moratorium was recently signed.<br /><br />Mining executives, who declined to be named, told Al Jazeera that huge bribes were paid.<br /><br />The Ministry of Forestry denies that corrupt practices have taken place.<br /><br />Although yet to be proven in court, the allegations suggest Yudhoyono's international promise to fight climate change and eradicate corruption still have a long way to go.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Jakarta.
