Korean palm oil giant, Korindo has been rejected from the world's green certification body in the wake of a BBC investigation. Korindo controls more land in Papua than any other conglomerate. The company has cleared nearly 60,000 hectares of forests inside its concessions - an area the size of Chicago or Seoul.
Perjuangan panjang dan suara lantang Orang Asli Papua untuk merebut daulat atas tanah, air, udara dan hak dasar lainnya kembali menemui tantangan yang bernama kebijakan pembangunan food estate. Arahan lokasi food estate di Papua seluas ± 2.684.680,68 hektar. Lebih dari dua juta hektar berada di kawasan hutan.
L’huile de palme nuit gravement aux droits humains, selon un rapport de Human Rights Watch (HRW), publié jeudi 3 juin.
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of communities living on or near peatland converted to commercial agriculture. It is also permitting the widescale destruction of one of the world’s most important carbon sinks, Human Rights Watch said.
- Human Rights Watch
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03 June 2021
Local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province has revoked permits for 12 oil palm concessions that cover an area twice the size of Los Angeles after a recent audit of palm oil concession holders found widespread administrative and legal violations. Activists have called on the government to follow up on the revocation by granting Indigenous peoples access to the rescinded concessions instead of granting new licenses to other investors.
Les dommages causés à des communautés par une plantation de palmiers à huile dans l'ouest du Kalimantan, en Indonésie, démontrent l'incapacité du gouvernement à appliquer ses propres politiques et lois, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd'hui
Des organisations de la société civile interpellent sur les abus entourant les agro-industries à l'occasion de l'Assemblée Générale des actionnaires du Groupe Socfin.
Lebih dari 200 orang masyarakat adat dan aktivis melakukan aksi longmarch ke kantor Bupati Sorong Selatan menolak perkebunan kelapa sawit,
pencabutan izin perusahaan dan mendesak perlindungan hak-hak Orang Asli Papua. Bupati Sorong Selatan mencabut ijin empat perusahaan kelapa sawit pada Selasa 18 Mei.
- Yayasan Pusaka
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22 May 2021
Perusahaan PT. Digoel Agri Group yang sebagian besar modalnya dimiliki pemodal asal New Zealand bernama Neville Christopher diduga melakukan land clearing, penggusuran dan penggundulan hutan untuk pengembangan usaha perkebunan kelapa sawit di Kab. Boven Digoel tanpa ijin.
- Yayasan Pusaka
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19 April 2021
Sebuah kompilasi dari WRM mengenai ancaman yang dihadapi komunitas yang bergantung pada hutan di Indonesia dan perlawanan mereka menghadapinya.
New report from Greenpeace International‘Licence to Clear’ shows systematic violations of permitting regulations as plantations were pushed into forest areas. Since 2000, forest estate land released for plantations in Papua Province has totalled almost a million hectares.
The Indonesian government last year started developing a food estate project in Central Kalimantan. While it is currently spread over 30.000 ha of land, the size of the food estate will be extended over the next two years. Now, the food estate project has been expanded to North Sumatra, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), South Sumatra, Papua, and Riau.