Legal Annotation of the Corruption Case on the Granting of Export Facilitation Permit of CPO Commodity and Its Derivatives

The scarcity of products and the increase in the price of cooking oil at that time became news that shocked all corners of the country in late 2021 until early 2022. Queues for cooking oil were everywhere, shopping places ran out of stock, and chaotic residents were jostling for cooking oil.

After going through inquiries and investigations, palm oil trade governance was once again the culprit. Large palm oil corporations are flocking to market their CPO products for export because they are considered more profitable. Several parties were also accused of corruption over the granting of the export permit.

The corruption case regarding crude palm oil export permits is a breakthrough made by the Attorney General’s Office in enforcing the law in corruption cases, especially related to corruption in natural resources with the involvement of corporate actors. In this case, one form of breakthrough in the prosecutor’s indictment was the application of the element of state economic loss which was much broader than state financial loss.

However, there are still a number of critical notes regarding the decision and indictment in this case. Starting from the implementation of corporate criminal liability which has not yet targeted groups, the narrow scale of cases being investigated, the confiscation of replacement money is not optimal, the government’s motives have not been explored, and other actors who should have been responsible for this case have not been involved.

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Annisa Rahmawati

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Annisa Rahmawati is a woman environmental activist. She started her career in 2008 as a Local Governance Advisor on a humanitarian program in Aceh - at EU-GTZ International Service which focused on peacekeeping and local government capacity building. Her experience in sustainable business comes from Fairtrade International as an assistant and at Greenpeace Southeast Asia as a Senior Forest Campaigner focusing on market campaigns for industrial commodities, especially deforestation-free palm oil from 2013-2020. In addition, Annisa also worked as a project assistant at UN-ESCAP Bangkok for sustainable urban development planning in 2012. Annisa has an educational background in Biology from Brawijaya University Malang and obtained a master's degree in International Management of Resources and Environment (IMRE) at TU Bergakademie Freiberg Germany with the support of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Foundation. Annisa is enthusiastic and passionate about spreading messages and awareness to the world about environmental issues and how to find solutions to make businesses more responsible, as well as how we can act to deal with the climate crisis that we are currently facing.