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View all search resultsOf at least 218,000 hectares with indications of being burned between January and August this year, nearly half were located in concession areas linked to oil palm, oil and gas and mineral mining businesses, a report discovered.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will allow the police and the rights body to interrogate its detainee – graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Peranginangin – about the dozens of people who were found kept in cages at his home in North Sumatra and allegedly forced to work on his oil palm plantation.
Civil groups are calling for more transparency in the governance of the oil palm sector, saying that Indonesia could still maximize its revenue from the sector as research has calculated substantial potential state losses from the sector due to alleged tax evasion.
Civil groups say the government should renew the moratorium on oil palm plantations following the recent Constitutional Court ruling against the controversial Job Creation Law, which the government had sought to use in resolving issues arising from the expired moratorium.
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