The secret deal to destroy paradise

Mongabay
Nov 28, 2018, 10:56 am325 pts
Prologue: Johor Baru, 2012 In December 2012, at a press conference on the sidelines of an Islamic business forum in Malaysia, a man named Chairul Anhar made a bold claim. His company, he said, held the rights to 4,000 square kilometers of land for oil palm plantations in Indonesia. If true, it would make…

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