Indonesian regulator gets 12 years’ jail for palm oil permit bribery

Mongabay
Sep 12, 2023, 11:16 am188 pts
JAKARTA — A court in Indonesia’s Riau province, the country’s palm oil heartland, has sentenced a high-ranking official to 12 years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for issuing or renewing plantation permits. The court in Pekanbaru, the provincial capital, found on Aug. 31 that Muhammad Syahrir,…

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