The palm oil boom changed Southeast Asia forever, but Indonesia’s government will not let bygones be. It has set up a task force to comb through all oil palm plantations and force those created on protected land to leave.

The government estimates that half a million acres, or around 200,000 hectares of plantations, will be removed to restore the tropical rainforest that should be there.

The internal security and environmental ministries have come together to work on ejecting the plantations, with Indonesia’s chief security minister, Mahfud MD, threatening to pursue legal action against palm oil companies that continue to use land illegally after the deadline passed last week.

When critiquing government action, especially on environmental issues, it’s important to remember that all governments are inherently slow and inefficient—developing ones more so, and considering the mountainous, forested terrain of rural Indonesia that encompasses thousands of islands, one begins to understand how just 40% of plantation owners operating in forests may have even been identified.

The first step for the task force, Reuters writes, was to set a deadline for the submission of paperwork detailing where and how much land each plantation owner is working on, and those that are found to be in what should be forest will be evicted.

The paperwork is necessary for obtaining cultivation rights, and those operating without will receive criminal charges.

“The ones in protected forests and conservation forests, the government wants to restore after they pay the fine,” forestry ministry secretary-general Bambang Hendroyono told reporters in Jakarta, adding this will be part of the government’s efforts to mitigate climate change.