Cases / Law, regulation and treaties · Indonesia · 2018
Indonesian report alleges illegal permit levies in Kutai Kartanegara
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
An Indonesian outlet reported illegal levies (pungutan liar) in Bumi Etam in 2019. The fee amounts and testimony linked to a regent's trial are not verified in the sources reviewed.
What?
Katadata reported illegal levies (pungutan liar) in Bumi Etam; the link to environmental permit payments is not verified. Katadata
Where?
Kutai Kartanegara regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
When?
Around 2018, according to the sources reviewed; Katadata article dated 11 February 2019 Katadata
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Reported as permit fees paid through consultancies and passed to local officials; not verified.
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
Katadata published an article on 11 February 2019 with an Indonesian headline about illegal levies (pungutan liar) in Bumi Etam.
The fee amounts and trial testimony reported for the case are not verified in the sources reviewed.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the case concerns Kutai Kartanegara regent Rita Widyasari.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: consultancies obtained environmental permits for companies in return for private fees that were passed on to local officials.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: an AMDAL permit tariff of 60 million rupiah per company (10 million up front, 50 million when the regent signed) and a UKL-UPL tariff of 35 million rupiah.
- None on record The companies involved, and the outcome of the case, are not named in the sources reviewed.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- Gurihnya pungutan liar di Bumi EtamKatadata · 2019-02-11