The original village, established by the government’s transmigration department, had a designated area of 5,000 hectares, an area just smaller than Manhattan. Only a third of the 419 souls (114 families) that live in Lembah Permai are fulltime residents. The Koreans decided against investing as a result of the plantation. “The plantation has had a bad effect on the Malango,” said village secretary Hasan. They canceled their plans on account of the oil palm plantation on the opposite bank. At one time, a Korean company considered building a microhydro electricity plant on the local Malango creek. It’s home mostly to “transmigrants” from the faraway island of Java, where more than half of the Muslim-majority nation’s 260 million people live. Lembah Permai sits at the end of a rocky six-to-seven-hour drive from Gorontalo city, the provincial capital. “The KPAD will outline what is allowed and not allowed in the forest,” he said. He hopes the situation will change with the signing of what Burung Indonesia - an affiliate of global NGO BirdLife International - calls a Village Nature Conservation Agreement, or KPAD. Hasan confessed he is uncomfortable with this notoriety. “It’s true, a lot of hunting happens here,” said Sudirman Hasan, the village secretary of this mostly Javanese hamlet that sits at the forest edge. Lembah Permai is famous among trophy hunters as a place to land rare endemic fauna that are protected under Indonesian law. Perhaps the animal died from old age or after being gored in a fight.” Her quip is justifiably defensive. She said her husband happened upon the skull during a hunting expedition. Goni is one of the few indigenous Minahasa people in Lembah Permai village, Gorontalo province, in northern Sulawesi, one of the archipelago country’s largest islands. The second, more pronounced, set emerges from its top jaw and curls over the animal’s eyes. In Indonesian, the name of the animal translates to “deer-pig.” Unlike wild boars, the babirusa has a dramatic set of tusks. Babirusa are one of the island of Sulawesi’s unique menagerie of endemic animals. “A babirusa,” she explained, placing the bleached white cranium on a formica table on the patio. LEMBAH PERMAI, Indonesia - Joula Goni stepped out of her house cradling a skull. The NGO is facilitating an ecosystem restoration project in the forest block.A local affiliate of NGO BirdLife International is working with locals to preserve the Popayato-Paguat forest block - and the dozens of endemic species within.In a village in the northern part of Indonesia’s giant Sulawesi island, hunters pursue rare animals that are protected by the law.