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JAKARTA — The office of the Indonesian ombudsman says it has found indications of maladministration in the government’s decision to revoke hundreds of logging, plantation and mining permits across the country. President Joko Widodo announced the mass revocation at the start of the year on the basis that the companies that were awarded the concessions were deemed to be moving too slowly in exploiting natural resources. But the unilateral move has spawned widespread confusion and uncertainty, prompting the office of the ombudsman, which has a mandate to investigate public complaints against gove…