Friday, December 14, 2012

Indonesian NGO voluntarily joins lawsuit as co-defendant in palm oil deforestation case

Mongabay: An Indonesian environmental group has taken the unusual step of asking to be named as a co-defendant in a case brought against the Aceh government by a palm oil company over the governor's decision to cancel a controversial concession in a peat forest on the island of Sumatra. WALHI-Aceh on Friday motioned to join the Governor of Aceh Province as a co-defendant in a lawsuit brought by PT. Kallista Alam, a palm oil company whose permit was terminated after it was found by a court to be clearing...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1214-tripa-case-update.html

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