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
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20 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
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.
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
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07 February 2018
Keterbatasan di tengah pentingnya informasi terkait penguasaan lahan dan berbagai industri ekstraktif di Papua menjadi alasan utama peluncuran webGIS Mata Papua sebagai alat monitoring baru.
- Mata Papua
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05 February 2018
An Indonesian community rights group has filed a complaint against the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil at the OECD for failing to address complaints by residents of two West Kalimantan villages.
- Jakarta Globe
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02 February 2018
Four new permits for palm oil expansion issued in Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia covering area almost the size of Singapore - major parts of which are comprised of high-density forest cover. One is given to Wilmar International key suppliers, Ganda group.
- Forest Hints
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01 February 2018
Des ONGs indonésiennes se sont fortement opposées aux autorités du gouvernement d’Indonésie au sujet d’un incident qu’ils ont enregistré le 18 décembre 2017, lorsque des forces de police ont tiré et blessé deux fermiers sur une plantation d’huile de palme de l’entreprise Wilmar
Nearly 200 square kilometers of forest have been cleared in Merauke, Indonesia's Papua region since 2014 for the plantation, with 10 square kilometers being opened up just since October.
The raising number of the land conflicts highlighting 2017 records in Indonesia. More than six hundred thousand families living in more than five hundred acres of land were impacted. Plantation sector is still dominating agrarian conflict with two hundred and eight cases found.
Perkebunan kelapa sawit menjadi komoditas yang mendominasi konflik agraria di Indonesia pada 2017. Pola pengelolaan yang menindas warga sekitar jadi penyebabnya.
- CNN Indonesia
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27 December 2017
Two farmers from Central Kalimantan, Indonesia were shot inside oil palm plantation of PT. Bumi Sawit Kencana (BSK), a subsidiary of Wilmar Group. They were shot by police officer assigned to secure the plantation area.
