Indonesia's top court rejects Indigenous community's appeal in palm oil case

Indonesia's top court rejects Indigenous community's appeal in palm oil case

JAKARTA: Indonesia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an Indigenous community that sought to cancel a permit for a palm oil concession on thousands of hectares of rainforest it claimed as ancestral land, legal documents showed on Friday. Upholding the appeal could have set an important precedent in a country that has pledged to both protect a $30 billion export industry, and improve governance amid allegations of deforestation and human r…

Indonesia’s top court rejects Indigenous community’s appeal in palm oil case

JAKARTA, Nov 1 — Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an Indigenous community’s appeal which sought to cancel a permit for a palm oil concession on thousands of hectares of rainforest it claimed as ancestral land, legal documents showed today. Upholding the appeal could have set an important precedent in a country that has pledged to both protect a US$30 billion (RM131.4 billion) export industry and improve governance amid allegations of defor…