World Rainforest Movement
Open letter to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the governments and citizens of the European Union Sawit Watch. Bogor, 26 January 2007 Hereby Sawit Watch expresses before the European Parliament, the European Commission,...
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Indonesia: the resistance of the sacred in Bali to the “green revolution” and the tourism industry
Indonesia: Oil palm plantations and their trace of violence against women
Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations
Fires, forests and peoples: knowledge and practices under threat
Indonesia: Protests on Java against forest destruction by the expanding cement industry
Indonesia: Proposed laws threaten to reinstate corporate control over agrodiversity
West Papua Oil Palm Atlas: The companies behind the plantation explosion
Mining activity kills Indonesia’s peasants and fisher people
Indonesia: Struggle against land grabbing of oil palm company PT Hardaya
Indonesia – How RSPO addressed concerns raised against First Resources, one of its members
“Paper Dragons”: Timber Plantation Corporations and Creditors in Indonesia
Stop the Conversion of Mangrove Forests, Local Initiatives Support Save the Mangrove Forest
Modern-day slavery in oil palm plantations: The outstanding cases of Malaysia and Indonesia
Indonesia: Timber monocultures destroying indigenous’ lands and livelihood
Indonesia: Gold in Bukit Tiga Jurai affecting food sovereignty
Indonesia: Police Brutality in support of the Bima Gold Mine Project
Indonesia: Oil palm plantations erode the right to work on communal land
Indonesia: Farmers protest against eviction caused by Debt Nature Swap (DNS)
The world is watching as the Indonesia-Norway REDD deal stalls
Indonesia: Sources of livelihood threatened by REDD+, mining and oil palm projects
APP and Cartiere Pigna try to intimidate social denounces in Italy of deforestation in Indonesia
Indonesia: Sinar Mas pulp and paper plantations encroaching on forests and peatlands
Indonesia: Government proposes 21 million hectares of plantations to meet climate targets
Indonesia: Giant eucalyptus plantation company destroys Benzoin forest gardens
Hiding monoculture oil palm plantations under a business-friendly “forest” definition
Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples oppose acacia plantations on their customary lands
Indonesia: Criminalization of social leader for the benefit of oil palm corporation
Indonesia: Call for suspension of World Bank (IFC) lending to oil palm
Indonesia: New report on the human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion
Indonesia: Leading oil palm producer. Leading carbon emitter?
Indonesia: Harsh conditions for women workers in oil palm plantations
Indonesia: Destruction of forests by pulpwood and oil palm plantations drives climate change
Indonesia: Call for Action against certification of Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper’s timber plantations
Indonesia: The alternative approach of community forest management
Indonesia: Pulp and paper company APRIL and forest destruction
Indonesia: Oil palm plantations at the heart of biodiversity destruction
Indonesia: Changes and Challenges of the Community-Based Forest Management Movement
Indonesia: Togean people defend their forests, lands, and ocean
Indonesia: Pulp and paper industry menace in South Kalimantan
Indonesia: Paper production threatens communities and forests in Sumatra
Indonesia: Million hectare oil palm plantation programme in Jambi
Indonesia: The challenges of World Bank involvement in forests
Indonesia: deforestation and forest degradation in Borneo’s forests
Indonesia: people take action against companies’ destructive activities
Indonesia: opponents to shrimp farming industry under arrest
Campaign against illegal logging in Indonesian national parks
ABN Amro Bank clients protest against Freeport’s activities in Indonesia
Sawit Watch: an Indonesian network against oil palm plantations
Indonesia: local people burn oil palm plantation company’s base camp
BAHASA. Hutan sangat penting untuk komunitas manusia yang menggantungkan hidup pada hutan, tidak hanya untuk mendapatkan makanan namun juga untuk kebutuhan spiritualnya. Sebagaimana yang disampaikan oleh seorang pemimpin suku bangsa...
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REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...
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BAHASA. Di akhir tahun 1980an, FAO dan Bank Dunia meluncurkan program besar mereka untuk menghentikan kehilangan/penyempitan hutan. Itu disebut dengan Rencana Tindakan terhadap Hutan Tropis (Tropical Forestry Action Plan-TFAP). Sebuah...
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BAHASA. Kenapa tinjauan singkat tentang PES, atau pembayaran untuk “jasa lingkungan”? Agensi PBB, industri, ahli ekonomi ekologis, sejumlah konsultan yang terus tumbuh dan NGO konservasi terus mengulang seruan aksi mereka dengan...
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BAHASA. Tujuan utama dari buklet ini adalah untuk memberikan informasi kepada komunitas tentang persoalan serius yang dapat diakibatkan oleh sebuah proyek REDD terhadap orang-orang yang terlibat di dalamnya. WRM telah mengunjungi...
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BAHASA. Abstrak Selama lebih dari dua dekade, industri perkebunan (ITPs), khususnya yang berskala besar, dikelola secara intensif, penanaman monokultur seumur, kebanyakan jenis tumbuhan eksotis cepat tumbuh seperti ekaliptus, cemara dan...
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After many years of supporting local struggles and disseminating information from different countries on tree monocultures and its impacts, WRM presents a new report to all those involved in these struggle (1). No better time than the...
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By Chris Lang The area of industrial tree plantations is expanding in the global South. Vast areas of monocultures have been established to feed raw material to the pulp and paper industry. This report investigates the role of European...
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By Rivani Noor and Rully Syumanda This report discusses the social, economic and environmental impacts of APP’s operations. Chapter one gives an overview of Indonesia’s forestry industry development paradigm, which led to the...
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by Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links and the World Rainforest Movement The second in a series of reports on the impacts of transnational corporations (TNCs) on forests and forest peoples. Five country case...
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Bila anda melakukan perjalanan dari kota Palangkaraya sampai ke kota Nangabulik, ibukota kabupaten Lamandau, Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah, anda akan melihat lanskap tunggal berupa perkebunan sawit.
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An obituary. By Hendro Sangkoyo (1) Patmi, 48, met her Maker very early morning on last Tuesday, the 21st of March 2017, during the short ride to St. Carolus hospital in Jakarta. Who she was most likely would have never came across the...
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Global Voices online, 12 June 2015. Friends of Jopi Peranginangin, an Indonesian environmentalist who was stabbed and killed in a bar in south Jakarta, are asking the government to lead a quick and transparent murder investigation....
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The opinion article from the Jakarta Post by Abetnego Tarigan, of the Indonesian NGO Walhi, and Iwan Nurdin, of the Agrarian Reform Consortium, warns on how the international focus on the impacts of plantation companies has been on their...
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JAMBI-INDONESIA: A farmer and environmental defenders activist murdered by Security Force of PT. WKS (Wirakarya Sakti), a subsidiary of APP (Asia Pulp and Paper – Sinar Mas Group). Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI) – Friends of...
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Despite the fancy PR campaigns of Asia’s giant agribusiness group Wilmar praising itself for its “No Deforestation” policy, the company continues to purchase palm oil from suppliers that continue to clearcut vast forests and...
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For Indonesian logging company Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL), clearing of peat forest on an island of Sumatra is “in line with its Sustainable Forest Management Policy” because, according to...
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By selecting the ‘Mekong River Basin’ from the left panel where it says 2River Basins in Focus’, detailed information will appear about the area. The Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia and the tenth longest river in...
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APRIL clears high conservation value forest in Sumatra’s Kampar Peninsula, as it breaks its own commitment, is an Investigative Report of Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of environmental NGOs in Riau, Sumatra, which monitors the...
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“Manufacturing Consent” is a film that features evidence and first-hand testimony of the abuses of PT Borneo Surya Mining Jaya (PT Borneo) in Muara Tae. The company, a subsidiary of First Resources Ltd, bulldozed farmland and forests...
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“Mining, plantation firms reported for rights abuses”, a Jakarta Post headline informs that mining and plantation companies are among the actors that should be held responsible for numerous human rights abuses in the country, according...
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WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 25 November 2009 Last update: August 2014 Tree species being manipulated: Acacia mangium and Sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria). GE trees produced in December 2004. (1) Aim of...
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By Haris Retno Susmiyati More than 35 % of Indonesian upland territory has been licensed as mining concession, of which 11.4 million hectares is located within protected areas. Since legally established in 1967, more than 3,576 mining...
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Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...
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