Indonesian oil palm smallholders sue state over subsidy to biofuel producers

Mongabay
Apr 24, 2018, 9:27 am116 pts
JAKARTA — Oil palm farmers in Indonesia are mounting a legal challenge to get a bigger share of a government fund they complain is being misused to subsidize biofuel producers. The Indonesian Oil Palm Plantation Fund, or BPDP-KS, was set up in 2015 to manage an export levy imposed on exports of crude palm oil…

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