Daewoo's overseas agribusiness expansion
    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.
    • GRAIN, Tany, Yayasan Pusaka
    • 29 May 2018
    Une lettre ouverte met en évidence la destruction des forêts, l'accaparement des terres et les violations des droits en Indonésie
    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.
    • FPP
    • 29 May 2018
    Nous pouvons vivre de la forêt, pas du palmier à huile
    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.
    • FPP
    • 30 April 2018
    Ghosts in the machine
    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.
    • The Gecko Project
    • 18 April 2018
    How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm
    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.
    • Mongabay
    • 27 Mar 2018
    The oil palm giant`s troubles
    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.
    • Tempo
    • 22 Mar 2018
    Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations
    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.
    • WRM
    • 07 Mar 2018
    De l’huile de palme à la pompe ? Crédit Agricole et BNP Paribas impliquées
    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
    • AdlT
    • 01 Mar 2018
    Felda investment in Indonesia Eagle High a bust, says oil palm watchdog
    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.
    • The Malaysian Insight
    • 20 February 2018
    Closing the gap
    FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability
    • FPP
    • 12 February 2018
    Is sustainable palm oil possible?
    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.
    • CFDT
    • 08 February 2018
    The Salim Group and land conflicts around West Papua
    In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.
    • AwasMIFEE
    • 07 February 2018
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