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Indonesia Hands Over Confiscated Palm Oil Plantations to State Firm Agrinas

March 10, 2025, 08.11 PM | Source: Reuters

ILUSTRASI. Signing of the Minutes of Custody of Evidence of Palm Oil Plantations by the Attorney General to the Minister of SOEs which was then forwarded to the President Director of PT Agrinas Palma Nusantara, on Monday (10/3/2025) in Jakarta.

PALM OIL - JAKARTA. Indonesian prosecutors on Monday handed over more than 221,000 hectares (546,000 acres) of illegal palm oil plantations seized as part of an on-going corruption probe to a new state-owned company that will manage them.

Indonesia, the world's biggest producer of palm oil, is working to improve the edible oil's global public image in the face of criticism that plantations are a major driver of deforestation.

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