Directorate Change

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Anglo-Eastern Plantations PLC

23 July 2009

Anglo-Eastern Plantations PLC ('AEP' or 'Company')

Directorate Change

Anglo-Eastern Plantations PLC, which owns approximately 132,000 hectares of plantation land, primarily in Indonesia, is pleased to announce the appointment to the Board of Drs. Kanaka Puradiredja, as Independent Non-Executive Director, with effect from 1 August 2009.

Drs. Puradiredja, aged 64, founded Kanaka Puradiredja Suhartono, an Indonesian based accounting firm, in 2000 and was a Senior Partner until October 2007. He currently holds the positions of Chairman of both the Institute of Audit Committee and Honorary Board of Indonesian Institute of Accountants and is an Independent Commissioner of PT Bakrieland Development Tbk and PT Dharma Henwa Tbk, listed in Indonesia.

The Companies which Drs. Puradiredja has been a director of in the past five years are as follows:

Current Directorships:

PT Bakrieland Development Tbk

PT Dharma Henwa Tbk

There are no further details to be disclosed by Drs. Puradiredja under paragraph 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules.

The Board would like to take this opportunity to welcome Drs. Puradiredja to the Board.

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