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GM of Wilmar's Indonesia unit charged over unlawful sugar imports
The Straits Times
|October 22, 2025
The general manager of Wilmar International's Indonesian subsidiary has been charged by the Indonesian public prosecutor over carrying out unlawful acts related to the importation of raw sugar in 2016.
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The unlawful imports had allegedly caused state losses amounting to 578 billion rupiah, said the company in a bourse filing on Oct 20.
The Duta Sugar International general manager is among representatives of eight other refined sugar producers in Indonesia who have been charged in the same case.
The nine companies account for most of the country's refineries that process imported raw sugar into refined sugar.
The producers maintain that they were acting under the direction of former trade minister Thomas Lembong, who instructed them to partner state-owned trading company Perusahaan Perdagangan Indonesia to import raw sugar and distribute refined white sugar to address a domestic sugar shortage in 2016.
This story is from the October 22, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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