Antara News·Indonesia·Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 05:20 AM UTC

Indonesian govt takes action against 11 firms over land fires

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Walda M, Rahmad Nasution

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Ministry has revoked the land-use rights (HGU) of 11 companies linked to land-burning cases in Kalimantan.

The companies whose land-use rights were revoked fall into five categories, based on the ministry’s review and recommendations from the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department.

"The National Police's criminal investigation chief recommended revoking the cultivation rights of 11 companies," Agrarian Affairs Minister Nusron Wahid told reporters in Jakarta on Monday.

The companies include PT MIB (South Kalimantan), PT RKA, PT SKM, PT SAE, PT BSLT, PT BOS, PT AER, PT ANI and PT API (West Kalimantan); and PT JMS and PT STP (East Kalimantan).

The first category covers companies deemed unable to prevent or mitigate fires on their concessions, which have repeatedly experienced forest and land fires.

It includes PT MIB, PT RKA and PT SKM, whose cultivation rights will be revoked in full.

The second category covers PT BSLT, whose 2,300-hectare concession expired in 2020 and will not be renewed. The land will revert to state control, Nusron said.

The third category covers three companies with plantation business permits but no issued cultivation rights (HGU) concessions.

"The ministry will not issue concessions to PT ANI (5,246 hectares), PT BOS (4,750 hectares) or PT AER (5,134 hectares)," Nusron said.

Under the fourth category, the ministry will partially revoke PT SAE's concession in Landak, West Kalimantan, because fires affected less than 50 percent of its area.

PT SAE's concession spans 1,510.2639 hectares, Nusron said.

The fifth category covers PT STP, PT API and PT JMS, whose cases remain under further review.

Nusron said authorities would continue monitoring the companies to ensure they did not resume land burning.

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