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Ten years since a landmark lawsuit over forest fires, the palm oil company at the center of the case has finally begun paying its $23 million fine in installments.
The company is one of 22 sued by the government since 2013 for fires; 14 of these have been found liable and ordered to pay a combined 5.6 trillion rupiah , but only one has paid in full. The ruling against KA, with the fine set at a then-record 366 billion rupiah , wasin 2015. The case also marked the first in a series of aggressive lawsuits brought by the government against companies that had allowed burning inside their concessions.
He said he suspected the company had sought out this arrangement to prevent having its assets seized, which a court had ruled in 2019 that the state could do in light of the company’s persistent failure to pay the fines. Roni called on the government to act on the ruling and seize and auction off KA’s assets.
Since 2013, the environment ministry has sued 22 companies for fires on their concessions. Fourteen have been found liable and have exhausted all avenues of appeal, including KA. In total, these 14 companies have been ordered to pay 5.6 trillion rupiah in fines.In the case of BMH, the company was only hit with a fine for damages, at 78.5 billion rupiah , but not ordered to pay for restoration, like KA was.
The same problem of lack of support also hinders efforts to assess corporate assets to determine a company’s solvency before collecting a fine or seizing the assets. In the case of PT Jatim Jaya Perkasa, a palm oil company ordered by a court to pay 491 billion rupiah in fines for fires, the environment ministry was able to obtain some financial data but couldn’t proceed further.“The bank then asked for a letter from the OJK,” the financial services regulator, he said.
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