The Indonesian government’s forestry task force has handed over a further 2.37M ha (5.85M acres) of seized plantations to state palm oil company Agrinas Palma Nusantara, The Edge Malaysia reported.
Completed on 13 May, the latest handover brought the total land managed by Agrinas to around 4.12M ha, making the company the biggest palm oil grower by land bank size, the report on the same date said.
Part of President Prabowo Subianto’s crackdown on the illegal extraction of Indonesia’s natural resources, the task force seized the land from companies they claimed had violated forest utilisation rules, The Edge Malaysia wrote.
The task force also seized more than 12,000ha of land from miners, Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin said at the handover ceremony.
Agrinas was formed in January 2025 by Subianto’s administration through the restructuring of an infrastructure services firm.
