Eco-Business

Taxes are not paid on some 9 million hectares (22.2 million acres), an area three times the size of Belgium, an Indonesian government audit finds.

As climate change and global disruptions worsen hunger, a revamp of food systems is urgently needed, analysts say.

Indonesia has legalised oil palm plantations one and a half times the size of London that were operating illegally in forest areas.

Indonesia’s top 50 palm oil companies have weak antigraft measures, rendering the industry highly prone to corruption, according to a new report by Transparency International Indonesia.

By Ramesh Bhushal

By Orla Dwyer

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Hans Nicholas Jong

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