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Report says enforcement failures have led to Unesco sites and land mapped as orangutan habitat being turned into plantations
Almost one-fifth of the land used for Indonesian oil palm plantations is located in the country’s forest estate, despite a law banning such activity, according to a study (...)
In December 2018, Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) handed out 92 decrees designating social forests (Perhutanan Sosial), a forest management scheme given to people living near forest areas, to 8,165 families and cooperatives (koperasi) in Jambi. The decrees covered over 91,000 hectares (...)
Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta — The Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) recorded 241 cases of agrarian conflicts in Indonesia throughout 2020.
KPA Secretary General Dewi Kartika believes that the large number of confects is an anomaly because it occurred in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic which (...)
The secretary general of the Agrarian Land Consortium (KPA), Dewi Kartika, has called in a pledge by Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who said during the 2019 presidential election that he would return land over which he has land use rights (HGU) to the state.
Kartika raised the issue in (...)
In this article, Frans Ari Prasetyo exposes the contradictions of the Jokowi government’s dependence on the World Bank and local capitalists. The article looks at the protest movement that erupted when the Global Land Forum was hosted by the Indonesian government in the city of Bandung. It (...)
Jakarta — An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot.
This data was outlined in the report “2018 End of Year Notes” published by the Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) on Thursday (...)
Marking International Human Rights Day, the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has highlighted widespread human rights violations related to agrarian conflicts linked to the government’s infrastructure development program.
Komnas HAM chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says that human (...)
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
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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 (...)
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