In the civil case brought by the Ministry of Environment, the court ordered the company to pay 114.3 billion rupiah ($9.4 million) in losses to the state and 252 billion rupiah to rehabilitate the land it destroyed.
The forest was protected under several laws, including a presidential decree suspending new permits to log peatland and some other types of forests across the country. Using fire to clear land is also illegal. The practice has sent choking haze across parts of Southeast Asia in recent years.
"This is a historic moment for law enforcement on environmental issues in Indonesia. We hope it will deter plantation companies from damaging the environment," the environment ministry's lawyer, Syafruddin, told AFP....
On a palm plantation in Indonesia, shot by Wagino 20100516, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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