Increase in palm oil plantations acreage does not always mean an increase in tax revenues. A report by Special Committee on Oil Palm Plantation Monitoring of the Riau Legislative Council in 2015 stated that of the total oil palm plantations covering an area of 4.2 million hectares in the Riau Province, 1.8 million hectares were unlicensed. The land was controlled by 190 companies that did not have a plantation business permit and a plantation cro