How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm
    Report uncovers an elaborate and coordinated scheme In Indoensia to establish shell companies, endow them each with licenses for thousands of hectares of land, and then sell them on to some of the region’s biggest palm oil conglomerates.
    • Mongabay
    • 27 Mar 2018
    The oil palm giant`s troubles
    Around 100 Nagari Maligi residents (‘nagari’ means village in the local language) have been protesting for days at the Wilmar Group’s representative office in West Pasaman, Sumatra, Indonesia since March 9.
    • Tempo
    • 22 Mar 2018
    Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations
    The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has turned women into landless food buyers and cheap labour, with no adequate safety and health protection, for the plantation companies.
    • WRM
    • 07 Mar 2018
    De l’huile de palme à la pompe ? Crédit Agricole et BNP Paribas impliquées
    Parmi les 5 principaux clients de Maybank, une banque malaisienne soutenue par BNP Paribas et Crédit Agricole, figurent des entreprises accusées d’être responsables d’accaparement de terres
    • AdlT
    • 01 Mar 2018
    Felda investment in Indonesia Eagle High a bust, says oil palm watchdog
    FELDA’S investment in Indonesian oil palm planter PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk (EHP) is a bust according to International Palm Oil Monitor (IPOM), a due diligence report in relation to EHP’s acquisition detailed numerous concerns and improprieties.
    • The Malaysian Insight
    • 20 February 2018
    Closing the gap
    FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability
    • FPP
    • 12 February 2018
    Is sustainable palm oil possible?
    Video of the mostly English-language session of a CFDT seminar featuring Dario Novellino and indigenous community representatives of the Coalition Against Land Grabbing operating in Palawan, the Philippines.
    • CFDT
    • 08 February 2018
    The Salim Group and land conflicts around West Papua
    In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.
    • AwasMIFEE
    • 07 February 2018
    Peluncuran webGIS Mata Papua
    Keterbatasan di tengah pentingnya informasi terkait penguasaan lahan dan berbagai industri ekstraktif di Papua menjadi alasan utama peluncuran webGIS Mata Papua sebagai alat monitoring baru.
    • Mata Papua
    • 05 February 2018
    Kalimantan villagers file complaint against RSPO in Switzerland
    An Indonesian community rights group has filed a complaint against the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil at the OECD for failing to address complaints by residents of two West Kalimantan villages.
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 02 February 2018
    Four new palm oil permits issued across Papua region
    Four new permits for palm oil expansion issued in Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia covering area almost the size of Singapore - major parts of which are comprised of high-density forest cover. One is given to Wilmar International key suppliers, Ganda group.
    • Forest Hints
    • 01 February 2018
    L’entreprise Wilmar International impliquée dans une fusillade policière contre deux fermiers sur une propriété d’huile de palme
    Des ONGs indonésiennes se sont fortement opposées aux autorités du gouvernement d’Indonésie au sujet d’un incident qu’ils ont enregistré le 18 décembre 2017, lorsque des forces de police ont tiré et blessé deux fermiers sur une plantation d’huile de palme de l’entreprise Wilmar
    • FPP
    • 09 January 2018

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