Indonesian oil palm firm slapped with $61m fine for fires on its plantation

Mongabay
Aug 1, 2023, 2:36 pm173 pts
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s highest court has upheld a $61 million fine against an oil palm company over massive fires on its plantation that razed an area seven times the size of New York City’s Central Park. On July 3, the Indonesian Supreme Court ordered plantation company PT Rafi Kamajaya Abadi (RKA) had…

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