JAKARTA A government audit on Indonesia’s palm oil industry found that 9 million hectares (22.2 million acres) of concession holders an area three times the size of Belgium don’t pay taxes. According to Luhut Pandjaitan, the chief minister in charge of investments, including the palm oil industry, the government arrived at that […]
JAKARTA The office of the Indonesian ombudsman says it has found indications of maladministration in the government’s decision to revoke hundreds of logging, plantation and mining permits across the country. President Joko Widodo announced the mass revocation at the start of the year on the basis that the companies that were awarded the concessions […]