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Restored on Paper

5.9 million hectares taken in the forest's name. 4.1 million of them went to one state palm oil firm.

Satgas PKH claim as of 13 May 2026. The government has not itemised it by province.

IndonesiaLeaks Team · 3 November 2026

Rp10 Trillion on the Table

May 13, 2026. President Prabowo stands before a pile of cash as tall as a person: Rp10.27 trillion (about US$X million).

Source: Project Multatuli, Jaring.id, Suara.com, Independen.id (June 2026)

It is the fourth such display since February 2025. The claimed total is about Rp40 trillion.

Source: Project Multatuli; Jaring.id

That same day, the forest task force (Satgas PKH) announced it had "taken back" 5.9 million hectares of forest land.

Source: Project Multatuli

Roughly ten times the size of Bali. Whose land was it, and who holds it now?

Source: BPS (Bali land area)

The List

Three weeks before the first seizure, the Forestry Minister signed a list: Forestry Ministry Decree 36/2025, dated 6 February 2025.

Source: Forestry Ministry Decree 36/2025

It names 436 oil palm estates inside forest areas, 1.13 million hectares in all. The decree is explicit: the list is "input material" for the task force.

Source: Forestry Ministry Decree 36/2025, Second Dictum

Most of them were going through legalisation.

About 790 thousand hectares are listed as "in process" under Article 110A of the Job Creation Law. Only 317 thousand hectares were rejected.

Source: Forestry Ministry Decree 36/2025, Third and Fourth Dictum

Almost 80 percent is in Central Kalimantan, not in Riau, which gets more of the headlines.

Source: Compiled from the data of Decree 36/2025

Big names are on it: Best Agro, Sinarmas, Musim Mas, Wilmar, Salim.

Source: Compiled from the data of Decree 36/2025

The next month the task force's official target came out: 1.32 million hectares. Still comparable to the list.

Source: Briefing by the Satgas PKH executive chair, 11 March 2025

The Jump

In June 2025 the Attorney General's Office announced that 1.01 million hectares had been taken back. That is close to the target.

Source: Attorney General's Office website, June 2025

May 2026: 5.9 million hectares. Four and a half times the first target. Five times the official list.

Source: Project Multatuli; Satgas PKH provincial targets (11 March 2025)

Where do the other 4.6 million hectares come from? The government has never itemised them. The figure cannot be traced in public documents.

Source: Difference between the 13 May 2026 claim and the 11 March 2025 target

The seizures we can trace in the news record only about 130 thousand hectares of corporate land.

Source: Compiled from news reports of Satgas PKH seizures (corporate subjects)

The Machine

Satgas PKH was created by Presidential Regulation 5/2025 in January 2025. Its steering chair is the Minister of Defence. The deputies are the Attorney General, the TNI Commander, and the National Police Chief.

Source: Project Multatuli; Suara.com; Jaring.id

Three weeks later, on 12 February 2025, the TNI Commander and the Forestry Minister signed an MoU: the military would help enforce forestry law.

Source: Independen.id; Jaring.id

On the ground, generals lead the seizures: the TNI Chief of General Staff and two task force commanders.

Source: Compiled from news reports of Satgas PKH seizures

The order is backwards. On 10 March 2025 the Attorney General's Office announced the handover of the Duta Palma palm oil land to PT Agrinas Palma Nusantara.

The regulation that is the legal basis for that transfer, Government Regulation 45/2025, was issued only on 19 September 2025, more than six months later.

Source: Project Multatuli; Suara.com; Independen.id; Jaring.id

The regulation also lets the task force re-verify permits already in progress, including ones that had already been processed.

Source: Government Regulation 45/2025, Article II paragraph 1 (Jaring.id)

Changing Hands

Of the 5.9 million hectares, 4.12 million hectares, about 70 percent, went to a single company: PT Agrinas Palma Nusantara, a state palm oil and biodiesel firm.

Source: Project Multatuli; Jaring.id; Suara.com; Independen.id

The handover took place in seven stages. Agrinas then opened operating partnerships (KSO) with private parties, with a revenue share of 20 to 45 percent.

Source: Jaring.id; Independen.id

Case study: PT Agro Bukit. On the Forestry Minister's list, all 8,753 hectares of its estate are marked in process, already at the last stage: Determination of the Release Area.

The task force seized it anyway on 7 March 2025: 3,798 hectares, one of the earliest seizures.

Source: Forestry Ministry Decree 36/2025 (SK36-010); Kaltengdaily, 7 March 2025

The pattern is not uniform. In other cases, what was seized is exactly the rejected part: Katingan Indah Utama 2,767 hectares, Tunggal Perkasa Plantations 574 hectares.

Source: Forestry Ministry Decree 36/2025 (SK36-177 to 180, SK36-419); news reports of Satgas PKH seizures

Meanwhile, the national target for rehabilitating critical land is 12.7 million hectares for FOLU Net Sink 2030.

Source: Auriga Nusantara; Project Multatuli; Jaring.id

Tesso Nilo

Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau: 81,793 hectares on paper. Home of the Sumatran elephant.

Source: Forestry Minister Decree 6588/Menhut-VII/KUH/2014; Independen.id

According to the Attorney General, only 12,561 hectares of forest are left. The rest, nearly 85 percent, is no longer forest.

Source: Attorney General ST Burhanuddin, press conference (Independen.id)

June 2025: the task force moves in. A Tactical Command Post (Poskotis) goes up, guarded by armed soldiers.

Source: Independen.id; Project Multatuli; Jaring.id

What has actually been restored so far: 511 hectares, in four blocks, with a budget of Rp7.5 billion.

That is under 1 percent of the land that is no longer forest.

Source: Documents obtained by IndonesiaLeaks (Independen.id)

In Bagan Limau village, 2,700 hectares of villagers' plots are claimed to lie inside the national park.

Source: Independen.id (IndonesiaLeaks)

Villagers were promised 632 hectares of replacement land across three regencies. In the end only 297 hectares could be occupied.

Source: Independen.id (IndonesiaLeaks): 200 ha in Baturijal Barat, 97 ha in Pangkalan Gondai

20 December 2025. Four hectares of villagers' plots were chosen for the first felling ceremony, watched by officials from Jakarta.

Source: Independen.id; Project Multatuli

Behind the numbers are people. Misdar Manik, a part-time teacher whose husband was detained after the Poskotis incident. Syarifudin, a village head whose residents now press him for answers.

Source: Independen.id; Project Multatuli

Meanwhile, two businessmen who controlled more than 400 hectares of oil palm inside the national park were not detained after handing their land to the task force. A company affiliated with one of them is reported to be an Agrinas KSO partner in Riau.

Source: Independen.id; Project Multatuli