Indonesia collects US$190mil in fines over forestry violations

A man carrying a child walks along the Ampera Bridge in Palembang, South Sumatra on October 5, 2026, as haze from forest and land fires in the region blankets the sky and surrounding areas. For weeks, Indonesia has been battling fires that have burned vast swathes of forest and peat ecosystems, causing toxic haze to blanket parts of the country, Malaysia and Singapore. - Photo: AFP

JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities have collected US$190 million in fines from companies working illegally in forestry areas, and seized more than 6.2 million hectares of land, the attorney general announced Tuesday (Oct 6).

Indonesia features regularly among the countries with the largest annual forest loss, NGOs have said, with mining, plantations and fires causing the clearance of large tracts of its lush rainforest.

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雅加达：印尼总检察长周二（10 月 6 日）宣布，印尼当局已向在林区非法作业的公司收取了 1.9 亿美元的罚款，并查封了超过 620 万公顷的土地。

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