farmlandgrab.org | Indonesia

UAE agro companies will invest in Subang
- CNBC Indonesia
- 23 August 2020
Elite Agro, a producer and distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will invest in Subang, West Java, Indonesia.
Perusahaan agro UEA akan tanam modal di Subang
- CNBC Indonesia
- 23 August 2020
Perusahaan produsen dan distributor buah dan sayur segar asal Abu Dhabi Uni Emirat Arab Elite Agro akan berinvestasi di Indonesia, tepatnya di Subang, Jawa Barat.
Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environmental red flags
- Mongabay
- 17 August 2020
The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a plan to grow crops on a Puerto Rico-sized area of peatlands, despite criticism from experts and a history of similar failed projects.
Farmers walk from N. Sumatra to Jakarta to demand Jokowi settle land dispute
- Jakarta Post
- 11 August 2020
Some 170 farmers have walked 1,812 kilometers from their hometown in North Sumatra, Indonesia to the capital city to demand to the President to settle a land dispute with state-owned plantation company that evicted them from their farmland.
Komnas HAM Papua: Tindakan aparat keamanan perusahaan sawit berlebihan
- VoA Indonesia
- 27 July 2020
Komisi Nasional HAM Perwakilan Papua menyimpulkan ada tindakan kekerasan berlebihan dalam kasus kematian Marius Betera, seorang petani di kawasan perkebunan sawit milik Korindo Group di Kabupaten Boven Digul, Provinsi Papua. Marius meninggal pada 16 Mei lalu, setelah bertikai dengan seorang anggota polisi, yang bertugas di kawasan perusahaan itu.
‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua
- The Gecko Project
- 14 July 2020
A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.
« Défendre nos droits est devenu un crime » : des paysans indonésiens contre le greenwashing de Michelin
- Basta!
- 10 July 2020
On parle de « plantations de caoutchouc naturel » mais pour l’Union des paysans indonésiens, il s'agit d'une appropriation à grande échelle des terres par Michelin et ses filiales
Groups demand financial, human rights probes into palm conglomerate Korindo
- Mongabay
- 07 July 2020
Activists have called for a financial probe into the Korindo Group, a conglomerate that paid a $22 million “consultancy fee” for the permits to expand its oil palm operations in Indonesia’s Papua province.
Urgent concern for the safety of land and human rights defenders
- Pusaka
- 05 July 2020
Civil Society Organzation from various regions in Indonesia and International letter contains urgent concern for the safety of land and human rights defenders impacted by the Korindo Group and POSCO International, Indonesia.
Selling out West Papua
- Al Jazeera
- 25 June 2020
A video investigation on allegations of fraud and human rights abuses in billion-dollar land deals in West Papua, Indonesia to develop oil palm plantation.
Indonesian court jails indigenous farmers for ‘stealing’ from land they claim
- Mongabay
- 23 June 2020
A court in Indonesia has sentenced two indigenous farmers to eight and 10 months in prison for harvesting palm fruit from land whose ownership is contested by the community and a palm oil firm, PT Hamparan Masawit Bangun Persada. The ruling appeared to ignore evidence showing that the villagers are the rightful owners of the land
Indonesia: Police crackdown on peasants protesting land-grab by a Michelin subsidiary
- Via Campesina
- 15 June 2020
Peasants living in Jambi province, Indonesia, were in for a shock when the police arrested Junawal, a local peasant leader and organiser on May 26, 2020. Junawal was leading the local resistance against a subsidiary of Royal Lestari Utama (RLU), a joint venture company between PT Barito Pasifik and French transnational tyre-manufacturing giant Michelin that manages more than 88,000 hectares of plantation land in Jambi and East Kalimantan.