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Highlighting some of the influences at work inside Indonesia which are contributing to the ongoing transfer of land from communities to corporations.
December 18, 2012
An interview with Kasmita Widodo, director of Indonesia’s Participatory Mapping Network JKPP and head of BRWA, Indonesia’s Ancestral Domain Registration Agency.
December 18, 2012
Last year DTE reported on the global land-grab phenomenon and its connection to the 2008 financial crisis, the global food price spike of 2007/2008 as well as the ongoing climate change & energy crisis...
December 18, 2012
A protracted land conflict in Aceh involving communities, a plantation company and a struggle for authority between central and regional authorities.
December 18, 2012
Agrofuels are often promoted by the agrofuels industry, investors and government officials as a means of providing livelihoods for rural communities, but how does this square with the fact that agrofuels are part of the landgrabbing problem in countries like Indonesia?
December 18, 2012
Snapshots of corporate control over land in Indonesia
December 18, 2012