Indonesia, Oct. 19 -- Indonesia's Forestry Ministry has imposed administrative sanctions on 32 companies in connection with forest and land fires that devastated 12,926.74 hectares across seven provinces, including West Kalimantan.

The punitive measures include permit suspensions, mandatory ecosystem restoration, and outright revocations-backed by a parallel wave of criminal investigations targeting corporate actors and individuals.

"Of these 32 companies, 19 have had their permits suspended and are required to restore the forest ecosystem across 9,546.42 hectares of burned land," the ministry's Director General of Forestry Law Enforcement Dwi Januanto Nugroho announced in a statement on Monday.

"Eight other entities are mandated to ca...