International environmental organisation Greenpeace says Indonesia has the world's highest rate of forest loss and may see much of its lowland forest disappear by 2010.

In a new report, 'Partners in Crime', Greenpeace has investigated the links between Britain and Indonesia's timber barons. The report says the findings are alarming.

It says every year an area of Indonesian forest larger than the United Kingdom's Wales is destroyed. The report says, at that rate, the lowland forests of two of the archipelago's islands, Sumatra and Kalimantan, will be destroyed by 2010.

Greenpeace alleges at least 88 per cent of all timber felled in the country has been logged illegally.

And it has accused Britain of complicity in the destruction, saying more than half of British tropical plywood comes from Indonesia's rain forests.