SINGAPORE: A district court in Riau sentenced a Malaysian plantation firm manager to one year in jail and fined him 2 billion rupiah (RM539,492) on Tuesday for neglecting to prevent forest fires on his company's estate in June last year.
The Pelalawan court also fined his company ADEI Plantation, a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK), 1.5 billion rupiah (RM404,619) and ordered it to pay 15.1 billion rupiah (RM4,073,160) to repair the environmental damage.
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