Labor abuses found at Indonesian palm plantations supplying global companies: Amnesty

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By Eveline Danubrata and Bernadette Christina Munthe JAKARTA (Reuters) - Global consumer companies, including Unilever, Nestle, Kellogg and Procter & Gamble, have sourced palm oil from Indonesian plantations where labor abuses were uncovered, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Children as young as eight worked in "hazardous" conditions at palm plantations run by Singapore-based Wilmar International Ltd and its suppliers on the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra, Amnesty said in a report. The palm oil from these plantations could be traced to nine multinational companies, it said.

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