Fewer than ten of the roughly 30 firms Indonesia is investigating over this year's forest fires will have their permits permanently revoked by mid-2027.

President Prabowo vowed this week to strip licences from any company even suspected of involvement in burning, echoing near-identical language he used in January after Sumatra's floods, when 28 permit revocations were announced. Researchers later found several of those permits had already expired or covered areas outside the disaster zones, while one gold mine remains under ministerial review months later. Current enforcement also continues to favour fines and suspensions over outright revocation.