A court in Indonesia has delivered a setback in the government's bid to punish companies allegedly responsible for the country's annual forest fires.
The judge rejected a lawsuit in the region of 550 million euros against PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), one of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies.
The government alleged BMH failed to prevent the recurrence of fires in 2014 and 2015 on about 20,000 hectares of land in a region of Sumatra.
"The decision is against the people's will, who have…
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