SINCE mid-February 2025, the Oil Palm Farmers Union (SPKS) has received multiple reports of military and police personnel visiting community-owned oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan. Identifying themselves as Garuda Team, the unit is a joint force comprising personnel from the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI).

The police officers and soldiers arrived at various locations in Seruyan, East Kotawaringin, and West Kotawaring