Sunday ` proudly brought to you by Mazda. Tonight on Sunday ` are Kiwis being abused on Australia's Christmas Island? There it is ` a modern prison in the middle of... an ancient jungle. Are you feeling nervous? Always nervous going into the detention centre. It's very overwhelming. (EXHALES DEEPLY) Big breath. Even though I'm scared on the inside, I will go in, and I will do the best I can. The Christchurch mum checking in on her desperate detainees. It's not good mentally, Christmas Island. It's definitely not good mentally. I believe I saw two people today that were close to breaking point ` very, very, very close. And the global business of baby trafficking. Just because some rich person believes that having an orangutan as a pet is OK. Harry! I'm a bit wary of you, Chico, I must say. (CHUCKLES) Inside the world of smugglers and eco warriors. It's a well-oiled, very well-organised criminal gang. It's mafia. Captions by Madison Batten. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2018 Kia ora. I'm Miriama Kamo. It's carried out discreetly ` unwanted kiwis rounded up by the Australian government. Since 2015, more than 1000 people have been locked up and then kicked out, some with kids with their entire lives tied up in Australia. They feel forgotten, but one woman hasn't given up on them. The Christchurch mum visits the broken and desperate detainees. Mark Crysell joins Filipa Payne on Christmas Island as she shares their stories from behind the barbed wire. (TENSE MUSIC) Do you feel like you're running a bit late? I do. It's stressful because running late means that I'm letting somebody else down. Sorry. It's really bumpy. These roads are very much like Christchurch. Filipa Payne's journey is taking her to the very edge, to a destination very few arrive at by choice. 'I'm not going to say that you're here because I don't want to be stopped going in.' But I will put out there again ` I am doing nothing illegal. (TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES) There it is ` a modern prison in the middle of... an ancient jungle. I'm here to look these guys in the eye and tell them I believe in them and I stand with them and they're not alone. The Christmas Island Detention Centre ` on an isolated rock in the middle of the Indian Ocean. This is where Australia sends you when it doesn't want you any more, and that includes hundreds of Kiwis. They talk about bringing people to Christmas Island to break them. MAN ON PHONE: Often their only visitor is Filipa, A Christchurch mother of five who pays her own way. I believe in equality, dignity, and liberty, and at the moment, unfortunately, I believe ANZAC is being abused and disrespected every day. Under the ANZAC banner, we have New Zealand citizens in Australian detention centres who are abused daily. The Kiwis here may have committed crimes, served time, failed character tests or even hung out with what the Australian government deems 'the wrong people'. They're being kicked out of the lucky country, a place many have only ever called home. Yeah, hello. Can I speak to Lance, please? We started talking to Lance in September last year, not long after he'd been taken to Christmas Island. But he wasn't. Lance is one of more than 1000 Kiwis rounded up over the past few years and held in detention until they sign deportation papers. The Australian government makes no apologies for its crackdown on 'undesirable migrants', saying it's making the country safer. He's being punished for an offence he committed when he was a teenager. Do you mind telling us what the offence was that you committed when you were 15? In the 18 years since his juvenile offending, he's held jobs, paid taxes, had a young family. He was 8 when he arrived in Australia. He's now 33. The Australia Lance considers home is a suburb in the country's most isolated city. We're about 40 minutes out of Perth now. It's dry. It's flat. And we're off to visit Annette. Annette is Lance's fiancee. Typical day. Sitting on the couch. I seen a car rock up. It was the Australian Border Force. Two or three of them I heard jump over the fences. Why? My guess is so if he did a runner, I guess. But yeah. How was Lance when this was all happening? Just dumbfounded. We both were like, 'What's going on?' For his offending 18 years ago, they took Lance away from Annette, away from his kids. What have you told everybody else? Friends ` he's working away. The older kids, they know what's happened, and the littler kids ` again, working away. This family has not only had their dad taken away; they've also lost their bread winner. Annette's had to go on a benefit. Struggle. Very big struggle financially. So yeah, now, instead of living comfortably, it's making everything stretch. Cut just here quickly. (LAUGHS) Yeah, sorry. She's tryna get up. Come on. What do you want? How are the kids coping? The two little ones ` our 1-year-old, she doesn't know. She just... Yeah, she knows something's gone, happened. She's more clingy than what she used to be. Kiss from Mummy and kiss from Daddy. Our 3-year-old, he... (EXHALES SHARPLY) 'I want my daddy' every now and then. (PHONE RINGS) He'll have his moments and just cries for daddy. Once a day, they have a phone call. So, how have you been, anyway? LANCE: Well, yeah, good, I guess. Go to the gym today? No, that's not until 4 o'clock. Just sort of sit around after this phone call and wait. Just twiddle my thumbs. Maybe play some cards. Worst is being away from the kids. Hi, Daddy. I'm dropping my puzzles. You dropping your puzzles? Doing puzzles? (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) What did you do? You being a good boy for Mummy? Yes. Love you. But the phone's as good as it gets, because there's no way Annette can afford to travel to Christmas Island. Hi. Hi, Annette. I'm Filipa. Filipa's passing through Perth on her way to Christmas Island. It's nice to meet you. She's hoping to meet Lance, who hasn't had a visitor in three months. How's Lance doing? No, he had a bit of a bad day today. I think it was just bringing up Christmas and things like that. Lance can sign his deportation order and be sent to New Zealand or remain in custody and go through an appeal process. Has he thought about signing to go back to New Zealand? I think he's worried that he'll never come back and then we'd never be a family again. But the Aussies have sent him away. Christmas Island is 2500km north of Perth ` closer to Indonesia than Australia. Only two flights a week. Just getting there is a trek. And then you arrive. We're here. Christmas Island ` a rock in the middle of the ocean. Filipa comes bearing gifts. They've got singlets along here and some T-shirts. Jandals. Jandals. Raro. Got cards because the guys don't have a lot of activities. And of course we've got a whole lot of New Zealand goodies as well, cos food is comfort. Sometimes I do feel a bit like a lolly lady, but to me it's more about bringing hope about. We've already had two deaths in detention, and I believe there'll be a lot more if we don't start giving these guys some compassion and aroha. When we come back ` inside the Christmas Island Detention Centre. I believe I saw two people today that were close to breaking point ` very, very, very close. Every five years, we all do the census, but don't expect a knock on your door, because... Look out for your access code in your letterbox this week, then use it to... (SOLEMN MUSIC) Christmas Island ` an Australian territory rich in phosphate and home to around 2000 people. Two-thirds are Chinese/Malay. Only settled in the late 19th century, it's better known these days as a landing point for boat people trying to reach Australia, infamous for its detention centre. But this is what it's famous for. Creeping, crawling, edging towards the sea. They're everywhere. Tens of millions of red land crabs migrating annually to the ocean to spawn. Through the jungle, across the roads, literally everywhere. There's a crab there, Mark. Watch your feet. Even inside the high-security detention centre. Sometimes you've got to make money to survive. So I used to catch the crabs, and I used to sell my crabs to the Asians for a packet of smokes, you know. Three years ago Ronald Neilson spent 10 months in detention on Christmas Island. It's not good mentally, Christmas Island. It's definitely not good mentally. On Christmas Island, detainees and asylum seekers live side by side. And in his time, Ronald witnessed deaths, riots, and horrendous self-harming incidents. I remember this one fulla had a razorblade, and officers were coming near him, and he was saying, 'Go away, go away, go away.' They kept coming up to him, and he's like, 'Go away.' He just started cutting his head, started cutting his body, started cutting everywhere, and he was just bleeding everywhere, and I was just like, 'Wow.' What's going through your mind when you see things like that? When I see things like that, I think 'If this guy's doing this to himself, what hope do we have? 'Are we going to end up like him ` sitting here for years, wanting to just give up on life?' Very few people are able to visit. No media have ever been allowed inside to talk to detainees. Kia ora. I'm Kelvin Davis, MP for Te Tai Tokerau. I'm here at the Christmas Island Detention Centre. But in 2015, Labour MP Kelvin Davis made the trek to Christmas Island and met eight Kiwi detainees. You got to really feel for them. They just don't know why they're here, how long they're going to be here, why they're this far away from their families. A lot of people just` they don't actually care about us. But he come over. He actually cared. He talked to all of us boys, asked how we were all doing, what it was all like here, is there any way he can help, you know. Christchurch mum Filipa has never given up on the Kiwi detainees. Do you remember going on any of the protest Marches that you did in Gold Coast? Australia hasn't released the numbers, but of the 330 men locked up on Christmas Island, Filipa believes up to a third of them are New Zealand citizens. Are you feeling nervous? Always nervous going into the detention centre. It's very overwhelming. I decided that if we lived in fear, we're not going to succeed, so as a mother, I tell my children we can't live in fear. So even though while I'm scared on the inside.. (EXHALES DEEPLY) Big breath. Even though I'm scared on the inside, I will go in, and I will do the best I can. Some of these men have committed serious crimes. These are people that are on the outside of society. They've hurt people, in some cases sexually assaulted them. Why do they deserve this from you? We can't just sit down here and point fingers. Does everyone not deserve a chance for redemption? You know I'm quite tired of people sitting in glass houses and judging other people. No one can move forward when the judgment and condemnation is continuously placed on top of you. How about help, support, love, and compassion? On her first day of visits, Filipa is given an hour per person. All going well, she will see six detainees. I went into the visitor's room, and it was extremely hot. There was no air conditioning on. It was a large room. It had a television in one corner with a DVD. It also had some board games for people to play. Everybody I saw today was of Polynesian or Maori decent. The first thing I always do is actually give them a cuddle because for me, a physical embrace and a sense of love and a sense that someone cares for you can start the relationship of trust really well. I met a man. He's been charged with a crime, but he hasn't actually been up in front of the judge or a judicial system to be found guilty of that crime. One person couldn't sit down, kept on walking around the room and talking about how frustrated he was. How close are they to breaking point? I believe I saw two people today that were close to breaking point ` very, very, very close. These guys ultimately will either be in Australian society or New Zealand society, so why are we not putting processes in place where they have a part of rehabilitation into society? Where's the counselling for their wives? Where's the support for their children? While these guys are in detention, their families are suffering. LANCE ON PHONE: Hello. Hey, Lance. How are you, mate? It's Mark here from TVNZ. Remember Lance ` a Kiwi who's been living in Perth since he was 8 years old, now held on Christmas Island fighting deportation because of a sex offence committed when he was 15, for which he never served any time. We can speak to him from outside. Strict rules forbid us visiting him and reporting our meeting. I'm good. Yourself? He's 33, hasn't broken the law since he was 15, apart from a few traffic offences. Do you feel that you have had continued disregard for Australian laws over the past 15 or 16 years? It's the second day of visits and Lance's turn to see Filipa. I'm allocated an hour visit for everyone, but because there's so many people today, the time slots, I've only been able to allocate 40 minutes per person. Lance was the second person I met today. And he knew that I was coming. He'd spoken to his wife. We first discussed his children, and that brought both a smile and tears to his eyes. We catch up on the side of the road afterwards. How did he seem? How was he? He's desperate. He's broken. He's feeling terribly ashamed, embarrassed, and terribly lonely. And he's also very, very concerned about his wife and his children. I saw a man that loves his family, and, you know, when you look in someone's eye, you get to see the sincerity, as opposed to having a conversation over the computer. I sincerely believe Lance is remorseful for what happened in his past. After the break ` will Lance sign the forms and come to New Zealand? How long would stay if you had to? And he was their most high-profile champion. Any sort of incarceration, I think, putting people in concrete boxes, expecting them to come out the other side better people is inhumane. But what about now he's in government? Kelvin has walked a walk for two years now, and now he's talking a different talk. I'm hearing things that I can't remember the last time I heard. Healthy hearing is now more affordable with... Call us or visit... 1 Father of two Lance has been locked up on Christmas Island now for seven months. It's a long, drawn-out process for him and his family. (SOMBRE MUSIC) Give me back my` Give me back my fiance. Annette has been a proud, fair dinkum Aussie all her life. But not now. What would you like to say to the Australian government? How dare you, really. How dare you take a good man away from being a father and a partner, to be honest. Just, yeah, I'm ashamed to be Australian sometimes. Her fiance, Lance, is in detention on Christmas Island 2500km away from her and his kids. His only way off ` a successful appeal or signing the deportation order to New Zealand. LANCE: I won't break. No way. If I didn't have kids, it would be a different story; I would have probably gone already. We'll be going back to see Annette on Sunday. Is there anything you want us to say to her? Lance has now been locked up on Christmas Island for almost eight months. Just a whole heap of things that aren't right. As an MP, Kelvin Davis took on the detainees' cause. It's not an overkill. It's a violation of human rights. Back in New Zealand, he called on John Key's National government to stand up for Kiwis in detention. Mr Davis, if you want to put yourself on the side of sex offenders, go ahead, my son, but we'll defend New Zealanders. It led to a confrontation in Parliament's lobby. But now he's in government, it's Kelvin Davis being accused of breaking promises. I'm at the point now where I'm ready to say, 'Actually, Kelvin, I believe you're gutless.' He's not even looking anyone in the eye and giving them the hope that he promised when he was sitting in the detention centre. He's been completely quiet, absent, and non-available. Have you turned your back on them? No. Definitely not. They're using the word gutless back at you. I understand, though. They're frustrated. But, you know, you have to` as a minister, I can't go out and step over the top of other colleagues. I'd love nothing more than to be able to continue the fight, but, like I say, there are other cabinet ministers whose job is to engage with the Australian government at that level. The issue of Kiwis in detention was raised by Winston Peters when he recently met the Australian foreign minister. They're not directed at New Zealand. These visa laws apply to all countries. But political prevaricating means nothing to Ronald Neilson. He spent $25,000 trying to appeal his deportation order ` without success. Broke, isolated, and after 10 months of no visits, witnessing self-harming and riots, he cracked. It broke you. Yeah, it honestly did. It broke me, and I didn't want to come back to New Zealand. I didn't know anyone in New Zealand except for a few people, and this isn't where I wanted to come, but this was my choice. This is the only option I had off that island, and sometimes you've got to take it. Ronald's Maori, but listen when he talks. I'm pretty much Australian. That's why I've got the accent. He's spent his whole life in Australia, born and raised on the Gold Coast to Kiwi parents, but that didn't automatically make him a citizen. The country of his birth detained then deported him after he'd served time for armed robbery and grievous bodily harm. It was just a fight that got out of hand, and I took the rap. But the funny thing is they got me on robbery cos somebody lost their phone or hat, and they got me on counts of robbery. He was 17, and it was his first crime. You understand when Australia says to you you have no right to stay in this country because of what you did? How can you say that to somebody? I messed up in the past. I was young, and I messed up. But I was born there. Do they not get that? I was born in that country. I see myself as an Australian. I couldn't` It was home for me. It is still home. This week, police revealed 40% of the 1100 returning detainees have re-offended, ranging from minor traffic violations to jailable offences. But those who go straight on parole and are supported within the community are committing far fewer crimes. Do we have to worry about them being back in our society? I think for a certain amount of people, we do have to worry about them. But, you know, the majority of these people are fines, they're traffic offences, they're DICs, they're graffiti, they're stealing cars. These are low-end criminal activity that has caused deportation. Do we have anything to worry about you in New Zealand? Nah. No, honestly, you don't. I work. Work every day. All I'm doing is trying to get on with my life, trying to leave all this behind. Palmerston North is where Ronald ended up. How are you? Oh, yes, I'm good, I'm good, just missing you, that's all. What's tough is knowing that he can't visit his mum back on the Gold Coast, who is seriously ill. Very proud of you. From where you've come from. Like they say, only the strong survive. TEARFULLY: It's so hard because of the struggle. Nah, it's all right, Mum. It's all right. Try not to get upset. Ronald may have got off Christmas Island, but he's never made it home. It's not like once you get separated and ripped apart from your family and sent to another country that you can just be happy. It's a long process. Can't let anything bring you down, man, otherwise you're not going to have a good day if you let it get to you. I think that's where I get it from, my mum. She's a strong lady. The good days aren't just for himself. This is Brooklyn, Ronald's little girl. Has becoming a dad changed things? Yeah, it's changed a lot for me. It makes me want to do everything for my daughter and provide for her and just give her the life I could never have. I wouldn't mind teaching her the Maori language and, you know, where she's from, where my family's from, just most of the things I never got taught because I was born and raised in Australia and I never had that opportunity. So I want to give her that opportunity. Will Lance be one of the next detainees to give in and sign his deportation papers? How are you? Filipa went to see Annette after she returned from Christmas Island, where she'd met with Lance. Lance walked in, and he looked pretty down in his body language and everything, and sat down, and the first thing I said to him was about meeting you and your baby girl, and that immediately put a smile on his face. ANNETTE: Oh, good. He's really struggling being away from you guys, and he's really hoping to come home soon. We're hoping that too. New Zealand or Australia? Where they can be together as a family rests on an appeal process. He's being proactive and informing himself, so for every outcome, he's going to have some knowledge. But he's also really worried that if he goes back to New Zealand, it's going to take some time for you guys to be able to get there. For this family, it'll be a leap into the great unknown. Lance left New Zealand at eight 8. Annette has never been. But whatever happens, she's determined they will be together again. He's my life. He's my future. He's the one I wanna die with. You'll make that happen? Oh God, yeah. I'll walk through fire just to make that happen. Family's family. You only get one family. Uncertainty surrounds the future of the Christmas Island Detention Centre. This trip may've been Flipia's last, but, she says, her work's still not done. I'm not going to stop, Mark. I just refuse to stop. Because if I stop, then I can't look myself in the eye. I'm not walking away from this. And I would love to see the New Zealand government actually participating and going into these detention centres. Stop relying on the Australian government to feed them information and come and be informed and see regularly. Let's get in there, and let's talk to them. Let's find out the truth from their eyes. Lance's appeal hearing is scheduled for April. By then, he would have been on Christmas Island for nine months. Back in November, we asked the Australian Border Force for the exact number of Kiwis being held on Christmas Island. We also wanted to know how long people are being held there and whether their mental well-being is monitored. More than three months later, we're still waiting for answers. Up next ` stuck in a tiny box in the back of a taxi, innocent baby orangutans being stolen and sold. Hello, baby. Chico is five years old. He doesn't even know how to climb a tree. Ow. Just because some rich person somewhere believes that having an orangutan as a pet is OK. 1 Welcome back. Stolen, drugged, and taken far from home ` a cruel and illegal trade is tearing baby orangutans from their jungle homes to be sold overseas, often to be kept as pets. We go inside a smuggler's story and meet the battlers risking their lives to save the great apes from extinction. Samantha Hawley investigates. We're about three hours south of Bangkok on our way to film some babies. They're not just any old babies. These are orangutans who were stolen from a forest in Indonesia and discovered in the backseat of a Bangkok taxi. Animal rights campaigner Edwin Wiek is taking us to meet them. Oh, yeah, here they are. Here they are. Yeah, so these are the ones that came from the taxi. It's actually quite sad to see. They're nearly a couple of months now. At least they've got each other. This is Nomita and Shizuka just over a year ago, filmed in the back of a taxi by an anti-trafficking group. The group used Facebook to pose as a buyer, paying a deposit of US $3,000. (SIREN WAILS) Thai police held the driver for a few hours then let him go without charges. As for the real criminals behind the sale of these three-month-old orangutans, we'll come to them a bit later. This is the surrogate mother? Yes, this is the mama. A year on, the rescued babies have a new temporary home here at a government sanctuary. They're just two of many smuggled orangutans that end up in Thailand every few months, far from their jungle home in Indonesia. So Am takes care of the four orangutans here. She just basically feeds them every day. (SPEAKS THAI) (SPEAKS THAI) They still drink milk. They'll come and smell you now. Hello, baby. They look healthy. Yeah they look OK. These four babies were all ripped from their mothers. What's the prospect of these guys going back to the jungles of Sumatra? Because they're young, there's a much better chance of them being repatriated back to Indonesia and going actually really to the wild, especially because they're Sumatran. So there's a good chance there's the political will there. They have a bond now. The longer animals are out of the wild, the harder it is to send them back. Harry's been here for three years. Harry! Harry, you be nice, please. Harry was found in a public bus, together with a Bornean langur and a Bornean gibbon, the three of them. So they were put on a bus in a box to be brought to Bangkok. They were caught in Hua Hin. So that's about half an hour from our centre. Ooh! Orangutan trafficking is a lucrative business, worth perhaps tens of millions of dollars per year by some estimates. Babies are stolen from the jungles of Indonesia and sold as pets and for zoos for entertainment. (MAN TALKS THROUGH LOUDSPEAKER) Orangutans are especially valued because they can be dressed up and taught to do tricks. Originally from the Netherlands, Edwin Wiek is a pioneer in wildlife protection in Thailand and a bit of a local legend. I've been in jail several times because you're pissing off the wrong people. The illegal wildlife trade is very lucrative; a lot of people make lots of money, including some politicians or government officials in some cases. (ORANGUTAN CHIRPS) Mimi. Mimi. Ooooh. Where you going, Mimi? Where you going? Whoop. Whoop. (ORANGUTAN WAILS) (ORANGUTAN CHITTERS) Well done! Well done, Mim! This is not what I would suggest as a normal habitat for orangutans. No. But it's a great area to teach them how to live in the trees again. Edwin takes me to meet Maggie and Chico, two orangutans who are still damaged from their former lives as pets. There they are over there. Oh, there they are. Yeah, here we go. (SNAPPY, BASSY MUSIC) Hi, Chico. I'm a bit wary of you, Chico, I must say. (LAUGHS) Very wary of Chico. Aren't I? Hmm. As long as you don't bite me, I'll be fine. (BOTH LAUGH) He is... You're a charmer. Thanks, Chico. Chico. Thanks, Chico. Chico, she doesn't like red heads. She likes blonde men. Chico is five years old and was taken from the rainforests of Borneo when he was a baby. He used to belong to a senior Thai police officer. Chico, what are you doing to do? What are you going to do with that umbrella? He was dumped because he was too difficult to handle. Maggie, where are you? Oh, there she is, there she is. You can see her hanging up there. You see? Maggie is from Sumatra. She was smuggled into Thailand as a baby and was somebody's pet. So, she looks for a high place and then every day, she builds a nest. You see? Oh, you did it! (CHUCKLES) She's so clever. Clever girl! But while Maggie displays all the right signs of rehabilitation, Chico shows none. He doesn't even know how to climb a tree. Ow. Just because some rich person somewhere in this world believes that having an orangutan as a pet is okay. You can see in one view here, the boy, being completely wasted by humans against a girl who has found her kind of freedom again and is living a much more natural kind of life. Edwin says many of the rescued animals he returns to Indonesia end up back in zoos. So they're just caged again? Just caged again. We finally managed to get inside a government-run animal rescue centre to see a male orangutan, Jono, who's been caged here for five years after being confiscated from a local group that kept him as a pet. (CLANGING) We hear him before we see him. (ORANGUTAN GROANS, WAILS) (CHIRPS, GROWLS) (WAILS) (CHIRPS, GROWLS) Jono was rescued in April 2012. (GROANS) He's been in this cage ever since. Ah, this has just been so incredibly confronting to see the animal caged like this ` this huge orangutan. We're told Jono will finally be taken to an orangutan sanctuary sometime this year, but he'll still need to be caged. At 15 years old, he's huge and now dangerous. We've found an insider who can tell us exactly how it all works. We must protect his identity, or he could be killed. He would pay a local tribesman the equivalent of AUS $50 for a baby and onsell it to a middleman for around $2500. (TENSE MUSIC) (SIREN WAILS, BABY GIBBON CRIES) It's not just orangutans that are in demand. This baby gibbon was discovered a few months ago in the Jakarta home of a wealthy Indonesian who wanted it as a pet. We've seen it all ` pilots, cabin attendants being used to smuggle stuff because they can eventually put whatever they want on the plane anyway. It's a well-oiled, very well-organised criminal gang. It's mafia. Up next ` a rescued orangutan is finally heading home. But freedom can be frightening. After a lifetime in captivity, they're just about to release this orangutan. 1 It's not OK to say she was asking for it. It's not OK to punch a hole in a wall to show your family who's boss. Or think you can demand their love and respect. And it's not OK to look the other way and say it's not our problem. Because it is our problem. And it's not OK. Ever. But it is OK to ask for help. 1 Some smuggled orangutans do get a second chance. We've come to East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo to see how the rescued animals are reintroduced into the wild. Hardi Baktiantoro runs the Centre for Orangutan Protection ` or COP. WIEK: I always like to call Hardi the orangutan commando. He is one of the real people fighting on the frontline against the abuse, the poaching, the trade of orangutans ` and other wildlife, but especially orangutans in Indonesia. Popi seems to really like her a lot. Popi was found wandering near a local farm. Her mother was almost certainly killed by hunters. Just like a human baby, orangutans need feeding every couple of hours, right through the night. When they're kept as pets, they rarely get the care they need. BAKTIANTORO: Popi is on her way to forest school. These are her classmates. Here they'll very simply learn to be orangutans ` to find their own food in the jungle, to climb, to be wild. She's crying. Oh, she's crying to come... Popi is the least brave in the class, but they'll all have time to learn. They'll remain here for at least another five years before being released into the wild. BAKTIANTORO: (DRAMATIC MUSIC) This is Oki. He's about to be set free after spending most of his 15 years in some form of captivity. We're lucky enough to be able to film with Hardi and his team as it happens. First he has to be sedated. (DART FIRES) Then they take samples of his fingerprints and hair so they can identify him later. Finally, Oki is transferred into an even smaller box, ready for tomorrow's journey. It has to be small so he can't move around and hurt himself or us. (THUNDER RUMBLES, RAIN FALLS HEAVILY) The final leg ` a 2km walk into the Sungai Lesan Conservation Forest. After a lifetime in captivity, they're just about to release this orangutan in this beautiful, lush forest ` exactly where it should be. (THUNDER RUMBLES) Oki isn't following the script. Normally orangutans, a solitary animal in the wild, move quickly away from humans and climb a tree. We leave. All alone now, Oki returns, unsure of what to do or where to go. He finds a camera in the tree and tries to eat it. A team returned last night and said that Oki had made a nest, which was a really, really good sign. Now we're heading back up early this morning with the vet to check that he's OK. (INTRIGUING MUSIC) For now, he hasn't gone far from where he was first released. Then he spots us. (TENSE MUSIC) So it seems to be following us down the river, so the vet's just told us to hurry up and get away from it. So probably not ideal. Eventually we shake him off. For Oki, there's a good chance it will all end well. Sadly, he's the exception. As for the smugglers who used Facebook to sell the babies in the taxi, it's business as normal. We've been told by a reliable source that investigations into the case have stalled, even though Thai police know who the perpetrators are, where they live, and have bank account evidence against them. For now, Nomita and Shizuka are stuck here in Thailand; their rainforest home in Sumatra is still too dangerous. Indonesian authorities admit that orangutans are likely to become extinct in the wild in 50 years. Some conservationists fear it will be much sooner. Edwin Wiek says that just shouldn't be allowed to happen. Whether they are influential politicians, government people, or just wealthy business people, hit them as hard as you can. They should be hit as hard as drug dealers or weapon dealers. That's what they really are. Make sure that these poachers are being caught, being told to stop, and hurt them too, because if it doesn't hurt, it won't work. And an update on Jono the orangutan ` DNA tests show he's from South Kalimantan, so he's been relocated back there, to where he belongs. Well, looking ahead to next week and a story on a little girl whose face we all remember. Coral Burrows was brutally murdered at the age of 6. 15 years on, her family and friends take us inside the case that captured the nation and tell us how Coral's death changed their lives forever. (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) (TENSE MUSIC) Mum was like, 'Where's your sister?' I was like, 'I don't know. I thought you'd picked her up.' That's when the panic started. It's now more than 33 hours since Coral Burrows was last seen in the small town of Featherston, and there are few clues as to where she may have gone. You were searching for Coral alongside her killer. Yeah. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) My sister was murdered by my mum's partner. SOBS: Horrible, horrible, horrible dad. The screams that went out, it was kind of bone-chilling. TEARFULLY: I know this is the place where he killed my baby. People use things like this as an excuse to totally ruin their lives. That's a cop-out. If you really care about that person you lost, you work as hard as you can in their honour. Coral Burrows' incredible legacy ` that's next week. Well, finally tonight ` theologian Lloyd Geering, who we featured in October, turns 100 years old tomorrow. Hari huritau ki a koe, e te rangatira. Happy birthday, Lloyd. And that's our show. Do join us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram ` @SundayTVNZ. And thanks for joining us this evening. Nga mihi nui, hei kona.