JAKARTA Indonesia’s highest court has upheld a $61 million fine against an oil palm company over massive fires on its plantation that razed an area seven times the size of New York City’s Central Park. On July 3, the Indonesian Supreme Court ordered plantation company PT Rafi Kamajaya Abadi (RKA) had previously been found […]
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The Supreme Court has ordered a palm oil company to pay Rp 920 billion (US$60.9 million) for failing to prevent or extinguish forest fires within its concession area in West Kalimantan, adding to a growing list of firms held responsible for environmental disasters in the country.