Indonesian fined for smuggling rare birds


Foiled: Enforcement agencies managed to stop an attempt to smuggle songbirds at the Tebedu border in southern Sarawak.

MIRI: An Indonesian woman has been fined RM115,600 for trying to smuggle rare songbirds into the Kalimantan province of Indonesia.

Busideh, 39, was ordered to serve 18 months in jail when she could not pay the fine.

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