Indonesia

Agribusiness large-scale land acquisitions and human rights in Southeast Asia
- FPP
- 02 August 2013
Updates from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Burma, by Forest Peoples Programme
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.
AgriNurture plans expansion of hybrid rice, vegetable production
- GMA News
- 28 July 2013
Philippine-listed food producer AgriNurture Inc is planning the expansion of its production areas for hybrid rice, fruit and vegetables with Chinese partner Beidahuang Seed Group of China.
Indonesia's palm oil industry rife with human-rights abuses
- Bloomberg
- 18 July 2013
Among the estimated 3.7 million workers in the industry are thousands of child laborers and workers who face dangerous and abusive conditions. Debt bondage is common, and traffickers who prey on victims face few, if any, sanctions from business or government officials.
Felda Global starts to acquire plantation land in Southeast Asia
- 09 July 2013
Felda Global is planning a $13.7 million purchase of rubber, oil palm land in Indonesia and says it is closing in on land deals in Myanmar, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea.
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.