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Case Study 12: Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case
Anindito, Lakso. 2025. “Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case.” Case Study 12, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: <a href="https://baselgovernance. org/publications/cs-12">baselgovernance.org/publications/cs-12</a>.
This Case Study highlights how investigators of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry achieved their first conviction for money laundering linked to forestry offences, leveraging institutional and legal changes in financial investigation procedures.
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This publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, ISSN 2813-3900. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
The development of this publication was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.
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Published
11/2025 (5 months ago)
Author
Lakso Anindito
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Anindito, Lakso. 2025. “Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case.” Case Study 12, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: baselgovernance.org/publications/cs-12.
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Indonesia
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