Indonesia

Malaysia, China investors eyeing Indonesian rice
- Jakarta Globe
- 07 July 2013
A group of Malaysia and Chinese investors are looking to invest as much as $2 billion in Indonesia’s integrated rice farms in the next seven years.
Land Grab dan dan Ketahanan Pangan Indonesia
- Gatra
- 27 June 2013
Adakah cara lain untuk menjamin ketahanan pangan di samping impor beras? Ada. Yakni ekspansi lahan pertanian ke luar negeri. Amin Subekti, direktur eksekutif ABAC, melontarkan gagasan ini ketika berbincang dengan Gatra pekan lalu.
Malaysia declares emergency in haze areas as Singapore improves
- Bloomberg
- 23 June 2013
Singapore yesterday sought “strong, firm, effective” action against Singaporean companies that may be involved in illegal burning in Indonesia that led to the city-state’s worst pollution on record.
China's investment foray into Indonesia
- Asia Sentinel
- 06 June 2013
Sinochem and ZTE Energy, an agribusiness arm of the Shenzhen-based telecoms manufacturer, both bid for 150,000 hectares of palm-oil plantations in 2012, but were promptly rejected.
The Philippines offers Indonesia to open palm oil plantation
- Republika
- 01 June 2013
Government of Philippines offers Indonesian state-owned plantations company BUMN to develop palm oil plantations in Mindanao on an area of 120,000 ha.
'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism'
- Guardian
- 25 May 2013
Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups
MVP Group eyes Davao farm
- PhilStar
- 22 May 2013
Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd’s agribusiness unit PT Indofood is eyeing 30,000 hectares of land in Davao Oriental, Philippines, for palm oil production.
Appropriations foncières et modèles agricoles
- CIRAD
- 24 April 2013
Ce numéro spécial des Cahiers Agricultures analyse la place accordée au foncier et aux diverses formes d’agriculture dans les stratégies des Etats, des investisseurs et des communautés d’acteurs locaux.
Asian palm-oil planters head to West Africa
- Bloomberg
- 03 April 2013
Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
Ironic Survival
- Engage Media
- 22 Mar 2013
Video on the struggles of the Malind of Papua to defend their lands from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
Cargill expanding palm-oil plantations in Indonesia
- WSJ
- 22 Mar 2013
“We are aggressively looking for new areas in Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan and South Sumatra that are environmentally safe to expand our oil-palm footprint,” says president-director of the company’s oil-palm plantations in Sumatra.
Agrarian problems emerge as corporations use MIFEE project for capital accumulation.
- awasMIFEE
- 02 Mar 2013
People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people’s lives.