Indonesia launches massive crackdown on illegal mining and palm oil operations across millions of hectares

Indonesian Deputy Forestry Minister Rohmat Marzuki rohmat marzukiannounced on January 19, 2026, during a parliamentary hearing that the government is intensifying its enforcement actions against illegal resource extraction. The ongoing military-backed crackdown targets mining activities spanning 191,790 hectares of forest land lacking proper permits and palm oil plantations covering a massive 4.1 million hectares. This unprecedented scale of enforcement in ID IDis currently disrupting global commodity supply chains and impacting international markets.