Companies supplying major manufacturers fail to meet promises to share land, joint BBC investigation finds.
By analysing government figures, the investigation found companies have failed to provide more than 100,000 hectares - around the size of Los Angeles - of legally-required plasma in Borneo's Central Kalimantan province alone.
More than 40 were arrested and assaulted by the police, villagers told us. "Without being questioned, we were beaten bloody," one man said. Seven were convicted of vandalism and sentenced to 18 months in prison."All the resistance they've mounted, sometimes even sacrificing their lives, and still there is no resolution," says Daniel Johan, who visited Tebing Tinggi soon after the protest with other lawmakers. "It means the system is failing.
In response to our investigation, the firms asserted they required their suppliers to comply with the law. But we found many have supply chain connections to companies that have been publicly outed for failing to comply with plasma regulations - including by Indonesian government officials. While Colgate-Palmolive stated that the company would develop a process to check its suppliers were providing sufficient plasma.The conglomerate behind the plantation in Borneo is Golden Agri-Resources, Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer, with plantations sprawling across half a million hectares of land.
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