Typo derails landmark ruling against Indonesian palm oil firm guilty of burning peatland

Mongabay
May 15, 2018, 11:44 am123 pts
JAKARTA — A landmark Indonesian case that saw an oil palm company fined millions of dollars for burning carbon-rich peatlands has effectively been derailed by a district court on the basis of a simple typo. PT Kallista Alam was in 2015 found guilty by the Meulaboh District Court in Aceh province of using fire…

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