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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts) Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:44 AM Feb 2019

Police charge Indonesian politician's brother in deforestation case

by Ayat S. Karokaro on 5 February 2019 | Adapted by Basten Gokkon

Police in Indonesia have charged the brother of a provincial deputy governor with clearing a protected forest to make way for an oil palm plantation.

Musa Idishah was questioned by investigators, but released pending the investigation.

His brother, North Sumatra Deputy Governor Musa Rajekshah, previously ran the company at the center of the investigation, and has also been linked to another corruption scandal.

Oil palm plantations are a major driver of deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where they are often carved out of ostensibly protected forest

More:
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/police-charge-indonesian-politicians-brother-in-deforestation-case/

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