Wilmar International

Indonesian palm oil company demolishes homes and evicts villagers in week-long raid
- Mongabay
- 14 December 2013
Nearly 150 homes destroyed in the latest incident in conflict between indigenous Batin Sembilan residents and former Wilmar company.
RRDC’s rejoinder: Wilmar International announces policy to protect forests and communities.
- RRDC
- 09 December 2013
NGO working extensively in the forest region of Cross River State of Nigeria, expresses doubts about Wilmar International's new policy to protect forests and communities.
Terres volées : des villageois nigérians veulent reprendre leurs terres à Wilmar
- GRAIN
- 07 December 2013
Wilmar, la plus grande société mondiale d’huile de palme, installe actuellement une gigantesque plantation sur des terrains forestiers qui ont été offerts de façon illégale à l’ancien président du Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. La communauté locale veut récupérer ces terres.
Stolen land: Nigerian villagers want their land back from Wilmar
- GRAIN
- 07 December 2013
Wilmar, the world's largest palm oil processor, is building a massive plantation on forest lands illegally gifted to Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The local community wants these lands back.
World's biggest palm oil company pledges to halt deforestation
- businessGreen
- 06 December 2013
Wilmar says it will ensure that its own plantations and companies from which it sources only provide products that are “free from links to deforestation or abuse of human rights and local communities”.
Financiers of palm oil must stop deforestation and illegal activity
- FOE
- 21 November 2013
Illegal and harmful production of palmoil in Indonesia is continuing, reveals a new report released today by Friends of the Earth.
Banques françaises: dites non à l'huile de palme !
- Amis de la Terre
- 21 November 2013
La production illégale et destructrice d'huile de palme en Indonésie se poursuit, telle est la conclusion d'un nouveau rapport publié aujourd'hui par les Amis de la Terre.
The politics of the forest frontier: Negotiating between conservation, development, and indigenous rights in Cross River State, Nigeria
- LUP
- 02 November 2013
Cross River State has become one of Nigeria’s premier agricultural investment destinations, crowding out smallholder production systems and creating new avenues for rent capture by elites.
Greenpeace slams palm oil giant supplying Oreo, Gillette
- Jakarta Globe
- 22 October 2013
Oreo cookies and Gillette shaving cream are among products driving the destruction of Indonesia’s forests, Greenpeace says, accusing agri giant Wilmar for supplying “dirty palm oil” to make the grocery items.
Palm oil deal undermines efforts to resolve 25-year conflict in Sumatra
- Mongabay
- 16 October 2013
Local groups call on governor of Jambi province to cancel PT Asiatic Persada’s permit after Wilmar’s sale of the company stalls IFC-mediated talks.
Robert Kuok's plantation firm eyes Myanmar as next sugar frontier
- Forbes
- 08 August 2013
Wilmar says it plans to expand its oil palm plantations holdings in West Africa and to start producing sugar in Burma.
Palm oil company guards injure four villagers in Indonesian Borneo clash
- Mongabay
- 29 July 2013
The clash is the latest incident in a long-running conflict between Wilmar subsidiary PT Bumi Sawit Kencana and villagers in Kotawaringin Timur district, Central Kalimantan.

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