January 22, 2026 | 10:03 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The request came from Muhammad Yusuf Ateh to Febrie Adriansyah, the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General’s Office (AGO). After listening to a presentation by the Forest Area Enforcement Task Force (Satgas PKH), the Chief of the Finance and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) asked that the names of companies owning illegal oil palm plantations and mines inside forest areas be disclosed publicly.
Ateh sat on the PKH Task Force steering committee. He asked Febrie whether the law allowed the publication of those names. Febrie, the task force’s Chief Executive, agreed. “The meeting eventually decided that the company names would be announced on Wednesday, January 14, 2026,” said PKH Task Force spokesman Barita Simanjuntak, speaking to Tempo in Jakarta on Thursday, January 15.
The task force met a day earlier at BPKP’s headquarters to discuss its 2026 action plan. There, the PKH Task Force reported that the total area of illegal oil palm plantations encroaching on forest areas that it had brought under control reached 4.09 million hectares throughout 2025.
That meant land once controlled by corporations and individuals now shifted to the state. The task force summoned 83 companies and collected administrative fines from 41 of them, totaling Rp4.76 trillion (about US$283 million). Among those were prominent corporate names, including the Surya Dumai Group and the Salim Group.
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