Perrine Fournier is forest and trade campaigner at forest and rights NGO Fern.
As a new round of free trade negotiations between the European Union and Indonesia begins in Brussels, Perrine Fournier argues that improving forest governance should be central to any agreement.
Palm oil has had a (...)
From 9 to 13 July, the 5th round of negotiations between Indonesia and the EU for a free trade agreement are taking place. The fact that there was no public announcement of the round highlights the lack of transparency surrounding the negotiations.
To see if this trade deal would support a (...)
Since March 13, 2017, over 50 local indigenous peasants known as Sedulur Kendeng have been sitting with their feet in cement boxes in protest. This is their second such protest in eleven months.
It is both a symbolic and literal plea to President Joko Widodo, more commonly known as Jokowi, to (...)
Children as young as eight are being used in Indonesia to produce palm oil found in popular household products, according to Amnesty International.
Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Kellogg’s and Nestle are among those linked to Singapore-based company Wilmar, the human rights group says.
The (...)
“If I don’t finish my target, they ask me to keep working, but I don’t get paid for the extra time. It is difficult work because the target is horrifying… My feet hurt, my hands hurt and my back hurts after doing the work.” A female worker at a palm oil plantation in Indonesia
Next time you’re (...)
Rural social movements have a rich history in Indonesia, and they have recorded significant achievements in recent years.
Jakarta, 1953: DN Aidit, one of the young and rising stars of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) launches his analysis of Indonesian agrarian society. He says agrarian (...)
Muhammad Ikhwan, Jakarta — Indonesia will commemorate the 51st National Farmers’ Day on Sept. 24. Over the years, we have witnessed the same demand from the farmers on the street: The right to land.
For many decades, farmers have lost in what I have called the fight for land. History tells that (...)
More than 65 years of independence, the situation of agriculture in Indonesia is still far from justice. We witness and feel the imbalances in land ownerships. Consequently, the situation leads to the fact that the peasants continue to own a very small land, or even landless.
Projection from (...)
The victims of the Lapindo mudflow disaster continue to assert their rights to compensation
‘My house was about 200 metres north of that mosque,’ says Cak Harto, as he points towards all that remains – the roof of a mosque poking through a vast basin of dried mud. Around it, the intense heat of (...)
Lapindo Brantas’ involvement in the Surabaya Post has restricted the way journalists report on the mudflow This is a story of politics, business, and newspapers in Indonesia. It is a story of how Indonesia’s richest man, Aburizal Bakrie, came to buy a struggling newspaper, the Surabaya Post, and (...)
Activists split with Indonesia’s government over whether land registration helps the rural poor
In a speech on 31 January 2007 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that agrarian reform would be a priority for his government. Since that time, Indonesia’s National Land Agency (BPN, Badan (...)
It has been hundred years peasant community settled and make their living in Suluk Bongkal, Riau Province. But, On 18 December 2008 the community are hunted by the drop of Napalm bomb, gun fired and tears gases. In a few minutes 700 houses were in flame. 1000 hired thugs and 500 police were (...)
This is the third translation from of a series of 13 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental, student and social-political organisations in Indonesia around the theme “Ten Years after the Fall of Suharto - Views from the People’s (...)
This is the forth translation from of a series of 13 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental, student and social-political organisations in Indonesia around the theme “Ten Years after the Fall of Suharto - Views from the People’s (...)
This is the fifth translation from of a series of 13 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental, student and social-political organisations in Indonesia around the theme “Ten Years after the Fall of Suharto - Views from the People’s (...)
This is the sixth translation from of a series of 13 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental, student and social-political organisations in Indonesia around the theme “Ten Years after the Fall of Suharto - Views from the People’s (...)
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11 April 2008 : Three harrowing days after they were hijacked by the police, and with their passports confiscated, the 15 international activists attending the WORA events in Jakarta, Indonesia to highlight the threats of genetically engineered (GE) rice, were today (...)
Jaukak Gulton, farmers activist, aged 66 who was actively struggling over the land conflict in Mariah Hombang village, Hutabayu sub district, North Sumatra Province was found lifeless on nearby land on 13 February 2008. His head to Chest was covered with Grass. Peasant National League (STN) (...)
The fall of the New Order dictatorship in May 1998 was a time of great hope for rural Indonesia. In the weeks following Suharto’s resignation, tens of thousands of peasants organised movements to occupy the land plundered during the dictatorship. They were not stealing this land, but simply (...)
On May 17, the streets of Jakarta filled with thousands of peasants. More than tend thousand men, women and children from the remote villages of Java flocked to the city centre with their banners, songs and the sound of the drums to one of the largest protests for agrarian reform since the end (...)
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