Fishermen jailed for having a dead Green Turtle

Fishermen (from left) La Ode, Masrin, Lahadi and Sariana pleaded guilty to the charge.

KOTA KINABALU: Four Indonesian fishermen were each jailed a year after they were caught with a dead Green Turtle in their net near a conservation area in Sabah’s east coast last August.

The four men – Sariana Launga, 39, Lahadi Lahasani, 48, La Ode Rahman, 21, and Masrin Lalufi, 50 – pleaded guilty after being produced before Sandakan Sessions Court judge Ummu Kalthom Abd Samad on Thursday.