Police charge Indonesian politician’s brother in deforestation case

Mongabay
Feb 5, 2019, 9:59 pm244 pts
MEDAN, Indonesia — Police have charged the brother of a top official in Sumatra with clearing a protected forest for a palm oil plantation. Musa Idishah, better known as Dodi Shah, is the director of a company that police allege conspired with local officials to change the designation of up to 500 hectares…

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