How Indonesian companies dodge fines for forest & peatland fires

Mongabay
Aug 19, 2025, 8:16 am112 ptsTrending
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s courts have ordered plantation companies to pay more than 21 trillion rupiah ($1.3 billion), an amount 28 times the environment ministry’s entire annual budget, for forest and peatland fires — yet almost none of that has been collected. This leaves burned land unrestored, smoke…

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