Indonesia’s New Palm Giant Taps Plantation Veteran for Top Role

Indonesia’s new state-owned palm oil giant has appointed Mohammad Abdul Ghani to its top role, putting an industry veteran at the helm of the company that now controls vast swathes of the country’s plantations.

Ghani is now president director of Agrinas Palma Nusantara, according to its website. He previously led Indonesia’s other state-owned plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara III, which operates sugar mills and farms about 800,000 hectares (2 million acres) of crops including palm oil, cocoa and rubber.