Mongabay: Environmental groups blasted a "lenient" sentence imposed on the director of a palm oil company that illegally destroyed an area of endangered peat forest in Indonesia's Aceh Province, reports the Jakarta Globe.
In a decision on Wednesday, a court in Meulaboh district sentenced Subianto Rusyid, the director of PT Kalista Alam, to ten months imprisonment and a 150 million rupiah ($13,000) fine for his company's illegal destruction of a block of forest within the the Tripa peat swamp, an area off-limits...