Indonesia

A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the island of Borneo, according to satellite imagery and government sources.

Dana pensiun terbesar di dunia telah mengumumkan bahwa mereka menjual sahamnya di grup Bolloré, sebuah konglomerat Prancis yang kuat, karena kekhawatiran atas “pelanggaran hak asasi manusia yang serius” di perkebunan yang sebagian dimiliki oleh grup tersebut.

Dozens of residents from Buol Regency, Central Sulawesi staged a land occupation on a 149-hectare plot of land that they say has been illegally occupied and planted with oil palms by the company PT. Hardaya Inti Plantation.

Puluhan warga dari Kab. Buol, Sulawesi Tengah melakukan aksi pendudukan lahan sawit. Lahan seluas 149 hektar ini selama belasan tahun dikuasai dan ditanami sawit oleh PT. Hardaya Inti Plantation.

A study by the LinkAR Borneo research team has found that the expansion of oil palm plantations operated by PT Equator Sumber Rezeki has caused extensive environmental damage and triggered social conflict in the conservation corridor connecting Betung Kerihun National Park and Danau Sentarum National Park.

Instead of halting the food estate project, which has repeatedly proved a failure, the government is using all possible means—from tinkering with the regulations to deploying troops—to ensure the success of one of President Prabowo’s flagship projects.

Coalition of civil society organizations and victims of Indonesia National Strategic Project, members of Solidaritas Merauke are strongly condemn the state from issuing regulations and decisions on the changes in the allocation of forest areas and for granting of Right to Cultivation and Right to Build to PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara covering 328,000 hectares of customary land in South Papua.

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday said that Indonesia may seize an additional 4 million to 5 million hectares of palm oil this year

Indonesia's defense minister has overseen a drive that has brought an area the size of Switzerland under state control, with the central government taking more than 4 million hectares of plantations, mine concessions and processing facilities.

Dalam pengarahan ke kepala daerah se-Papua dan Komite Eksekutif Percepatan Pembangunan Otonomi Khusus Papua (16/12/2025), Prabowo mempertegas “daerah Papua harus ditanam kelapa sawit untuk BBM, tebu dan singkong untuk etanol” semua bertujuan demi swasembada energi. Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat mengidentifikasi ada 94 perusahaan perkebunan kelapa sawit di Papua dengan luas 1.332.032 hektar. Ironisnya, perkebunan sawit dimaksud hanya dikuasai dan dimiliki segelintir korporasi yang dekat dengan penguasa.

A palm oil company owned by Indonesian tycoon Alexander Thaslim has cleared nearly 1,500 hectares of rainforest since it began operating last year in Kapuas Hulu, a landlocked district deep in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province

Around 3.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations have been seized by Indonesian military, with nearly half transferred to nascent state firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, catapulting it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size. A sweeping military-backed takeover that has sent a chill through the world's biggest palm oil producer and its 16-million-strong workforce.