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The future for Papuan forests

... Southeast Asia. If the Indonesian government is serious about controlling illegal logging, it should carefully monitor the activities ... the requirement for transparency in decision-making about licences; mechanisms for consultations with communities before land is ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:09 - 0 attachments

Big plans for Papua

... MW by 2025 and the total investment value is identified at about IDR 4,012 trillion (USD 437 billion). The government will contribute ... (see also box, below for connections to MIFEE). What about people, environment and climate change? Social and environmental ...

Story - carolyn - 03/04/2013 - 10:03 - 0 attachments

Starvation and poverty in Indonesia: civil society organisations appeal for suspension of MIFEE project in Papua pending redress for local communities

... we have learned a lot. It makes us think carefully about our own decisions. Our ancestors did not give us our land for us to sell ...

Story - carolyn - 09/02/2013 - 07:39 - 1 attachment

Indigenous Women decision-makers

... normal, a woman’s lot. They don’t want people to know about it, and this allows discrimination and violence against women to ... in decision-making? What are Perempuan AMAN’s ideas about how to address this? Adat isn’t static, it is developing too, so ...

Story - carolyn - 10/22/2014 - 07:23 - 0 attachments

Sawit Watch calls for EU to face up to oil palm responsibilities

... in sustainability criteria due to increased concern about climate change impacts of palm oil. Oil palm plantations in Indonesia ... paper, as above. 5 For more information about Blue NG, see ...

Story - carolyn - 12/09/2010 - 18:19 - 0 attachments

EU-funded Leuser project slammed

... not know or care what the Leuser Development Programme is about and there is a low level of co-operation and participation in its ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:24 - 0 attachments

Rio Tinto in Southeast Sulawesi

... months later, shareholders were still kept in the dark about some of the giant mining company's operations in Indonesia. The 1998 ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:22 - 0 attachments

Peoples Plantations': help or hindrance in tackling deforestation?

... DTE 74 ). Further concerns have been raised about the forestry department's legal right to allocate land (since so little ... made an announcement to counter rumours that it was about to reduce the area classified as forest in Java and divide it between ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

Indonesia's First Indigenous Forestry Festival

... for securing indigenous forests; share knowledge about exploiting forest products - an exchange of experiences between ... to enable indigenous communities to find out directly about developments in Indonesian forest policy. Dialogue between indigenous ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

German company to build nickel smelter

... living near the Pomalaa site at Desa Tambea are concerned about pollution from the mine which, they say, is affecting their farming and ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments