Cases / Agriculture, livestock and food · Indonesia · 2020
Indonesia's palm garden amnesty collected 822 billion rupiah by May 2024
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Indonesia's environment ministry estimated 2,130 suitable palm gardens covering 2.1 million hectares of forest area. Fines were based on a simplified timber value, and a corruption investigation opened in October 2024.
What?
Indonesia's amnesty for palm gardens in forest areas collected 822 billion rupiah from 241 companies by May 2024. Mongabay
Where?
Forest areas across Indonesia Mongabay
When?
2020 law; payments reported up to May 2024 Mongabay
Who?
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Fines were calculated per hectare on a simplified timber value of 25.7 cubic metres. The sources reviewed do not name the body that collected them. Mongabay
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What happened
The record, in order.
Indonesia's environment ministry estimated 2,130 suitable palm gardens covering 2.1 million hectares of forest area, Mongabay reported.
By May 2024, 241 companies had paid 822 billion rupiah in total under the programme.
The Attorney General's Office opened a corruption investigation into the programme in October 2024.
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What we don't know
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Nature
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Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: under articles 110A and 110B of the 2020 omnibus law, unpermitted gardens could keep operating for up to 15 more years.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: palm gardens in protected and conservation forests were excluded from the amnesty.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the government task force said in 2025 that it took back about 3.4 million ha and transferred about 1.5 million ha to state company Agrinas Palma.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: a research centre said only 61% of the first 833,413 ha was palm and about 614,000 ha were smallholder gardens.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: a realistic timber value would raise the fines several times over.
- None on record Totals after May 2024 were not found in the sources reviewed.
Did the harm stop?
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Who paid?
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Sources
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- Indonesia seizure of illegal plantations and transfer to Agrinas Palma Indonesia · 2020–2025
- Attorney General's Office of Indonesia (Public authority) — here: Opened corruption investigation into the programme; there: Investigating authority