• Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company
    • Mongabay
    • 21 June 2018

    Indonesia’s national commission on human rights has vowed to investigate the death of a journalist who was being held on charges of defaming a palm oil company owned by a powerful tycoon.

  • Daewoo's overseas agribusiness expansion
    • GRAIN, Tany, Yayasan Pusaka
    • 29 May 2018

    South Korea’s Daewoo is one of world’s largest transnational conglomerates and continues to expand a business empire that extends from manufacturing and trade to natural resources like oil and gas, minerals and food.

  • Une lettre ouverte met en évidence la destruction des forêts, l'accaparement des terres et les violations des droits en Indonésie
    • FPP
    • 29 May 2018

    Plus de 200 organisations indonésiennes ont adressé une lettre ouverte soulignant les effets néfastes du secteur de l'huile de palme en Indonésie au président de la République d'Indonésie, au président du Conseil de l'Union européenne et aux dirigeants des États membres de l'UE.

  • Nous pouvons vivre de la forêt, pas du palmier à huile
    • FPP
    • 30 April 2018

    Une coalition de la société civile a mené une action devant le Ministère de l’environnement et des forêts de l'Indonésie pour protester contre un permis d’octroi des terres forestières étatiques à une entreprise du secteur du palmier à huile, PT Menara Wasior.

  • Ghosts in the machine
    • The Gecko Project
    • 18 April 2018

    Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of articles on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. Ghosts in the machine exposing land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge.

  • How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm
    • Mongabay
    • 27 Mar 2018

    Report uncovers an elaborate and coordinated scheme In Indoensia to establish shell companies, endow them each with licenses for thousands of hectares of land, and then sell them on to some of the region’s biggest palm oil conglomerates.

  • The oil palm giant`s troubles
    • Tempo
    • 22 Mar 2018

    Around 100 Nagari Maligi residents (‘nagari’ means village in the local language) have been protesting for days at the Wilmar Group’s representative office in West Pasaman, Sumatra, Indonesia since March 9.

  • Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations
    • WRM
    • 07 Mar 2018

    The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has turned women into landless food buyers and cheap labour, with no adequate safety and health protection, for the plantation companies.

  • De l’huile de palme à la pompe ? Crédit Agricole et BNP Paribas impliquées
    • AdlT
    • 01 Mar 2018

    Parmi les 5 principaux clients de Maybank, une banque malaisienne soutenue par BNP Paribas et Crédit Agricole, figurent des entreprises accusées d’être responsables d’accaparement de terres

  • Felda investment in Indonesia Eagle High a bust, says oil palm watchdog
    • The Malaysian Insight
    • 20 February 2018

    FELDA’S investment in Indonesian oil palm planter PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk (EHP) is a bust according to International Palm Oil Monitor (IPOM), a due diligence report in relation to EHP’s acquisition detailed numerous concerns and improprieties.

  • Closing the gap
    • FPP
    • 12 February 2018

    FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability

  • Is sustainable palm oil possible?
    • CFDT
    • 08 February 2018

    Video of the mostly English-language session of a CFDT seminar featuring Dario Novellino and indigenous community representatives of the Coalition Against Land Grabbing operating in Palawan, the Philippines.

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