Over the past two years, EIA has conducted investigations into the palm oil sector and its increasing role in the supply of timber from natural forests. This report exposes the criminality driving forest conversion and makes clear the urgent need for both enforcement and reform. In November 2014, the newly inaugurated President Joko Widodo acknowledged the threat unregulated plantation expansion poses to Indonesia’s natural heritage, stating: “It must be stopped. We mustn’t allow our tropical rainforest to disappear because of monoculture plantations like oil palm.” The time to act is now......

This report reveals how a palm oil plantation established and developed illegally in 2013 and 2014 has since continued to clear forests illegally with impunity.

Worse, the timber it has illegally cut is certified legal under Indonesia’s flagship Timber Legality Assurance System.

This is despite repeated reports being filed to Government, enforcement officials and certification company staff over a two-year period by ourselves and JPIK......