In revising its criminal code, Indonesia risks unraveling environmental laws

Mongabay
Sep 1, 2022, 4:23 pm195 pts
JAKARTA — An ambitious and long-anticipated plan by Indonesian lawmakers to revise the country’s criminal code, inherited from the Dutch colonial era, could make it much more difficult to prosecute polluting companies, experts warn. The latest draft of the revised penal code, known as the RKUHP, was only…

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