Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan

In a blow to rainforest conservation on Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra, a court today dismissed a class-action lawsuit aiming to force the Aceh provincial government to mention the Leuser Ecosystem in its land-use plan.

The decision is a major roadblock for conservationists across the world and for citizens of Aceh who had hoped to secure the protected status of what is one of the archipelago country’s last great swaths of intact rainforest, home to critically endangered rhinos, tigers, elephants and orangutans.

source: https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/indonesian-court-shuts-down-legal-challenge-to-aceh-land-use-plan/