Indonesia

APC denounces World Bank’s role in global land grabs
- APC
- 27 Mar 2015
The Asian Peasant Coalition denounces the World Bank on its “16th Conference on Land and Poverty” that brings together corporations, governments and some civil society groups
Mitchell to sell 49pc of cattle stake
- AFR
- 16 Mar 2015
Mitchell's Yougawalla Pastoral Company the latest Australian cattle station business to be put up for sale. Foreign corporations have spent some A$63.5 million buying into the sector in the past month.
Indonesia palm oil battle pits farmers against big plantations
- Reuters
- 12 Mar 2015
Singapore-based Golden Agri-Resources, which has oil palm plantations covering 250,000 ha in Indonesia, wants to expand in Kalimantan. Rights groups accuse the company of taking land from local people without free and informed consent.
Forest Peoples Programme complaint against Golden Agri Resources upheld
- FPP
- 09 Mar 2015
Palm oil conglomerate criticised for multiple violations of RSPO requirements that lands can only be acquired from indigenous peoples and local communities with their free, prior and informed consent.
Genting Plantations, Musim Mas to build 600,000 t/y palm refinery
- Reuters
- 06 Mar 2015
Malaysian oil palm planter Genting Plantations Bhd said it has entered into an agreement with Indonesia's Musim Mas Group to build a 300 million ringgit ($82.17 million) palm oil refinery in the Borneo island of Sabah.
RRI condemns the murder of Indra Pelani, land rights activist beaten to death by guards contracted to Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)
- RRI
- 04 Mar 2015
Local and international NGOs condemn Feb 27 killing of a farmer and land rights defender in Jambi, Indonesia.
Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia
- TuK Indonesia
- 20 February 2015
25 large tycoon business groups control 3.1 million hectares of the total planted oil palm plantation in Indonesia. And another 2 million hectares of undeveloped land banks under control.
Clearing the way for plantations: land grabs, deforestation and endangered species
- Goldman Prize
- 11 February 2015
Conflict palm oil: how could something as seemingly innocent as vegetable oil be the cause for so much concern? Mass deforestation, corporate land grabbing, human rights abuses,are just a few of the conflicts surrounding industrial palm oil production.
Let's say no to palm oil in our foods!
- STOP PALM OIL
- 06 February 2015
STOP PALM OIL
Could 2015 be a breakthrough year for community land rights?
- Reuters
- 04 February 2015
2015 is set to be a pivotal year for the global recognition of land and resource rights if momentum in protecting the world's forests and their communities can be kept up
Indonesia: We reject the palm oil companies because this is our home
- WALHI
- 27 January 2015
A new video from WALHI documents the views of villagers in Bengkulu Province, on the west coast of Sumatra, who are resisting the expansion of palm oil on their lands.
Indonesian hearings reveal forest ravages
- Asia Sentinel
- 14 January 2015
As Indonesia’s national inquiry into land conflicts affecting indigenous peoples draws to a close, it has become clear that police brutality has become a serial feature and that legions of companies are operating without permits.