Indonesia

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2020

• Indonesia: What is an Ecosystem Restoration Concession?

• Driving “Carbon Neutral”: Shell’s Restoration and Conservation Project in Indonesia

2019

• Kekerasan Terhadap Buruh Perempuan di Perkebunan Sawit Indonesia

• Infrastructure and Extraction: A Host of Deforestation

• Indonesia: Violence against Women Workers in Oil Palm Plantations

• Indonesia: Fate of Fishing Villages in the Climate Crisis and the Failure of ‘Blue Carbon’

• Indonesia. The Gloomy Truth Behind Geothermal Energy: A misleading Narrative of “Clean Energy”

• Green discourses and deforestation

2018

• Women and plantations: When violence becomes invisible

• Peasant communities and those dependent on the forests united in struggle

• Indonesia: The trail of destruction behind a sheet of paper

• 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: Forest burning and punished victims. The tragedy of the Delang indigenous community in Lamandau, Central Kalimantan

• Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations

• Fires, forests and peoples: knowledge and practices under threat

• Borneo: Penan village successfully resists logging operations

• (Bahasa) Pembakaran Hutan dan Korban yang Dihukum: Kisah tentang Tragedi Masyarakat Adat Delang di Lamandau, Kalimantan Tengah

2017

• WRM Bulletin – Nomor 229 – Februari / Maret 2017

• Southeast Asia: Strengthening resistance beyond boundaries

• Large-scale investments and climate conservation initiatives destroy forests and people’s territories

• Indonesia: Protests on Java against forest destruction by the expanding cement industry

• Indonesia: Proposed laws threaten to reinstate corporate control over agrodiversity

• Biodiversity offsetting and biodiversity corridors in Asia: Nature destruction and protection acting in tandem

2016

• “The Mauzes”: defending territories and life

2015

• “Pulping” the Local-Food

• West Papua Oil Palm Atlas: The companies behind the plantation explosion

• Mining activity kills Indonesia’s peasants and fisher people

• Intensification of land grabbing and more concentration of land ownership in the era of “green capitalism”: News from Indonesia

• Financialized capital and palm oil corporations

• Burning Season In Indonesia What have industrial plantations and the Indonesian State done to the islands’ forests?

2014

• The REDD Ulu Masen project in Indonesia: like selling air

• Metamorphosis of destructive logging companies

• Indonesia: Struggle against land grabbing of oil palm company PT Hardaya

• Indonesia: Palm oil company PT Kallista Alam sentenced to multi-million-dollar fine for burning forests

• Indonesia: forests are more than land

• Indonesia – Interview with Sawitwatch about the impacts of industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia and the experience with the RSPO

• Indonesia – How RSPO addressed concerns raised against First Resources, one of its members

2013

• “Paper Dragons”: Timber Plantation Corporations and Creditors in Indonesia

• Your urgent support requested: help release peasants and an activist of Walhi persecuted and arrested in Indonesia

• Sued for protesting against Wilmar’s refined destruction

• 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: Mangroves for life

• Indonesia: Gold in Bukit Tiga Jurai affecting food sovereignty

• Indonesia: Action on Customary Forests

2012

• Indonesia: Warning to financial institutions: Don’t Fund Forest Destruction of APP and other pulp and paper manufacturers

• Indonesia: The Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership REDD project – little partnership, many problems

• Indonesia: RSPO fails to take action against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses

• Indonesia: Police Brutality in support of the Bima Gold Mine Project

• Indonesia: Oil palm plantations erode the right to work on communal land

• Indonesia: Oil palm plantations and Industrial “Plantation Forest” (HTI) violate human rights destroying Indigenous People’s Identity

• Indonesia: Farmers struggle against industrial oil palm and acacia plantations in defense of their land and food sovereignty

• Indonesia: Farmers protest against eviction caused by Debt Nature Swap (DNS)

• Indonesia: Court victory against oil palm company

• Indonesia: Bayat Society Builds Life

• A Timorese Forest Struggle

2011

• The world is watching as the Indonesia-Norway REDD deal stalls

• Mining for REDD in Indonesia

• Let’s say it in every language

• Indonesia: Sources of livelihood threatened by REDD+, mining and oil palm projects

• Indonesia: debt, plantations and resistance

• Human rights crisis in palm oil estates in Indonesia

• APP and Cartiere Pigna try to intimidate social denounces in Italy of deforestation in Indonesia

• Actions against dams around the world

2010

• Indonesia: Sinar Mas pulp and paper plantations encroaching on forests and peatlands

• Indonesia: REDD project – many threats, no solution

• Indonesia: NGOs denounce misleading propaganda of APP

• 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

2009

• Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South

• Myth No. 5: Plantations relieve pressure on native forests

• Indonesia: The paper that brought violence and death

• Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD

• 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

2008

• Indonesia: Pulp mill impacts on health of local population

• Indonesia: New report on the human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion

• Indonesia: Leading oil palm producer. Leading carbon emitter?

• Indonesia: Killings by Perhutani in East Java teak plantations – a twofold perverted notion of joint forest management

• 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

2007

• Open letter: Palm Oil for Biofuels Increases Social Conflicts and Undermines Land Reform in Indonesia

• Indonesia: Government Policy on Palm Oil Development

2002

• Towards Community Forestry in Indonesia

• Indonesia: The Struggle for Self-Governance

• 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: Gender impacts of commercial tree plantations

• Indonesia: Changes and Challenges of the Community-Based Forest Management Movement

2001

• 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: Mounting tensions over industrial shrimp farming

• Indonesia: Million hectare oil palm plantation programme in Jambi

• Indonesia: Mamberamo dam threatens nomadic tribes

• Indonesia: Low expectations on log export ban

• Indonesia: ADB will not fund Mamberamo dam

• Indonesia: A call for a halt in certification activities

• Good news from Indonesia on oil palm!!!

2000

• The plantation issue in the OED report

• Indonesia: The pulp and paper sector’s unsustainable growth

• Indonesia: The challenges of World Bank involvement in forests

• Indonesia: The bitter oil palm harvest

• Indonesia: Exploring the past and future of oil palm

• Indonesia: deforestation and forest degradation in Borneo’s forests

• Indonesia: A new victim related to Indorayon

1999

• New book on impacts of tree plantations in Indonesia

• Invitation to Indigenous Peoples’ Congress in Indonesia

• Indonesian Indigenous Peoples question new forestry law

• Indonesia: the struggle against oil palm plantations

• Indonesia: people take action against companies’ destructive activities

• Indonesia: opposition to oilpalm plantations

• Indonesia: opponents to shrimp farming industry under arrest

• Indonesia: new legislation, old problems

• Indonesia: Indorayon’s future in question

• Dayak people win lawsuit in Indonesia

• Campaign against illegal logging in Indonesian national parks

• ABN Amro Bank clients protest against Freeport’s activities in Indonesia

1998

• “Reform” times in Indonesia?

• The struggle against Indorayon in Indonesia

• Sawit Watch: an Indonesian network against oil palm plantations

• Mining activities destroy the environment in Indonesia

• Indonesia: violent confrontations related to Indorayon

• Indonesia: Timber empires collapsing

• Indonesia: students break up meeting to promote transmigration and oil palm plantations in the Mentawai islands

• Indonesia: Mega-project in Central Kalimantan

• Indonesia: local people burn oil palm plantation company’s base camp

• Indonesia: Dayak’s tour seeking support

• Indonesia: conflict over oil palm plantations

• Indonesia: APRIL the troublemaker

• Indonesia: a depredatory economic “miracle”

1997

• Oil palm scheme in Siberut, Indonesia

• Indonesia’s forests in flames

• Indonesian forests under threat

• Indonesian Forestry Incursions in Suriname

• Indonesia: UPM-Kymmene and APRIL destroy rainforest

• Indonesia: PT TEL’s plan mounts protests

• Indonesia: Mega-project in Central Kalimantan

• Indonesia: an answer from Rio Tinto

Books and Briefings

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  Tema Hari Hutan Internasional Tahun 2015 Persatuan Bangsa-Bangsa: “Hutan / Iklim / Perubahan” Apa yang berubah?

  Posted on March 20, 2015

  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

  Posted on December 3, 2014

  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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  REDD berpindah dari hutan ke bentang daratan/seni pertamanan: Lebih serupa, lebih besar dan dengan resiko kerusakan yang lebih besar

  Posted on September 27, 2014

  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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  Perdagangan Jasa Ekosistem. Ketika “pembayaran untuk jasa lingkungan” memberikan izin untuk merusak

  Posted on April 29, 2014

  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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  10 Hal Yang Harus Diketahui Oleh Komunitas Tentang REDD

  Posted on January 9, 2013

  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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  Sebuah tinjauan terhadap industri perkebunan di bagian. Selatan Konflik, tren, dan resistensi perjuangan

  Posted on June 11, 2012

  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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  An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: conflicts, trends, and resistance struggles.

  Posted on June 11, 2012

  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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  Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South

  Posted on December 18, 2008

  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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  Social conflict and environmental disaster: A report on Asia Pulp and Paper’s operations in Sumatra, Indonesia

  Posted on August 22, 2006

  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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  Undermining the forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study

  Posted on January 16, 2000

  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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Other Relevant Information

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  “Sexy killers”: Coal extraction in Indonesia

  Posted on November 25, 2019

  Directed by Dandhy Dwi Laksono and Ucok Suparta, “Sexy Killers” is a 2019 Indonesian documentary film that portrays the coal mining industry and its relations with the Indonesian political establishment. The documentary also shows how...

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  The Poetic and Haunting Death of Patmi of Mt. Kendeng, Java, Indonesia

  Posted on March 28, 2017

  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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  Indonesian Groups Rally Online to Demand Justice for Slain Environmentalist

  Posted on June 15, 2015

  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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  Lives matter most: plantation companies’ abuse on local populations

  Posted on May 6, 2015

  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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  URGENT CALL: A farmer and environmental defenders activist murdered by Security Force of PT. WKS, a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper – Sinar Mas Group

  Posted on March 4, 2015

  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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  Indonesia: Wilmar continues to engage with suppliers that clear orangutan habitat, forested deep peatlands and high carbon stock forests

  Posted on October 31, 2014

  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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  Indonesian logger: “cleared peat forest doesn’t have high conservation value”

  Posted on September 26, 2014

  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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  The “State of the World’s Rivers” website from the NGO International Rivers, illustrates the alarming situation of the Mekong River Basin.

  Posted on September 4, 2014

  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

  Posted on May 7, 2014

  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 – VIDEO

  Posted on December 30, 2012

  “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

  Posted on December 30, 2012

  “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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  Indonesia – WRM information sheet on GE tree research

  Posted on November 25, 2009

   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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  Open letter: Palm Oil for Biofuels Increases Social Conflicts and Undermines Land Reform in Indonesia

  Posted on January 26, 2007

  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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  Picture of Women’s Life Devastation by Mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

  Posted on December 16, 2005

  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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  Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action

  Posted on March 18, 2002

  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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