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Indonesia: Environmentalists lament light sentence in Tripa peatland destruction case

2014-05-10 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Environmental groups blasted a "lenient" sentence imposed on the director of a palm oil company that illegally destroyed an area of endangered peat forest in Indonesia's Aceh Province, reports the Jakarta Globe. In a decision on Wednesday, a court in Meulaboh district sentenced Subianto Rusyid, the director of PT Kalista Alam, to ten months imprisonment and a 150 million rupiah ($13,000) fine for his company's illegal destruction of a block of forest within the the Tripa peat swamp, an area off-limits...

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