Interested in this kind of news? Receive them directly in your inbox. Delivered once a week. Sign Up There are efforts to conceal these issues, including by claiming oil palm plantations are forests. Some statements supported by several academics have also accused several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) of negative campaigns against oil palm in Indonesia. We hereby would like to state and assert that, in fact, the palm oil plantation and industry have indeed destroyed and eliminated forests on a large scale2 and they continue to destroy forests and peat lands until now. Full letter in the link below. Download: Indonesian leaders open letter EU Commission on palm oil diesel PDF, 208.6 KByte