Indonesia

EU investors, land grabs and deforestation: case-studies
- FERN
- 10 June 2015
European banks and investors are a major source of finance for large-scale destructive agriculture; forestry; and pulp and paper projects.
Trying to follow the money: Tracing investments to actual places in SE Asia
- CIFOR
- 10 June 2015
Following the many paths of where investment dollars go to fund agricultural commodities in SE Asia can be a challenging but not impossible prospect.
Palm oil regulator asked to investigate illegal land grabs by Wilmar Group supplier in Borneo
- FPP
- 01 June 2015
Borneo human rights organization files complaint alleging multiple breaches of RSPO standards by palm oil supplier PT. Swadaya Mukti Prakarsa (SMP) / First Resources.
Pupuk Indonesia needs $534m for Merauke Food Estate
- Jakarta Post
- 18 May 2015
The government has tasked state-owned fertilizer maker Pupuk Indonesia to raise Rp 7 trillion ($534 million) to clear and develop 750,000 hectares of rice fields in Papua, a senior official said over the weekend.
Palm sustainability group puts expansion ban on Golden Agri unit
- Reuters
- 11 May 2015
A palm oil industry body orders one of the world's major producers to stop buying or developing new plantations in Indonesia, in a dispute seen as a test case on expansion by agribusiness firms versus local land rights.
West Papua 'oil palm atlas' portrays industry's explosion in region
- Mongabay
- 06 May 2015
There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived. A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.
West Papua Oil Palm Atlas – The companies behind the plantation explosion.
- awasMIFEE
- 30 April 2015
A comprehensive investigation into the oil palm industry in West Papua, by awasMIFEE and Pusaka and local Papuan organisations Belantara Papua, Bin Madag Hom, Jasoil, SKP KAME and Jerat. Papua, and Sawit Watch.
“Advance the struggle for genuine agrarian reform in Asia,” says APC
- APC
- 24 April 2015
Landlessness in Asia has worsened due to massive land grabbing, land-use conversions and plunders of natural resources carried out by private investors (domestic or foreign).
Government still looking to Merauke for industrial agriculture development
- Awas Mifee
- 17 April 2015
Despite the frequently-voiced opposition by many local indigenous Marind people. The new Indonesia government still looking to continue large-scale mechanised agriculture project, Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
Govt to revive food estate project in Papua
- Jakarta Post
- 16 April 2015
The Indonesian government is considering reviving the stalled “food estate” program of the prior administration by involving private and state-owned companies.
In Indonesia, local communities lose out as oil palm expands
- CIFOR
- 01 April 2015
Oil palm, billed as a way to improve local economic opportunity and reduce poverty in the tropics, may not live up to that billing, a recent report shows. On the front lines of oil palm expansion, the indigenous forest-dwelling Arfak people of West Papua Province, Indonesia believe they are not the beneficiaries of the palm’s promise.
Indonesia: Lives matter most around plantations
- Jakarta Post
- 28 Mar 2015
The recent torture and murder of Indra Pelan is the result of widely entrenched industrial plantation system whereby whole swaths of rural land have been taken from locals without their consent.