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Views of the 1999 Congress

... all the participants came with their own grievences about companies in their particular areas." Ideng Putri, Sepan Nikai, East ...

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

Agrarian Reform: is it really pro-poor?

... named yet. In some mass media, officials have talked about areas in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua as the designated ...

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

Villagers shot, one killed in Sosa land dispute

... though most people have now returned to the village and go about their daily business, some still prefer to sleep up in the forest. Of the ...

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

Resource exploitation continues as tension mounts

... environmental controls. While some investors are concerned about the gathering momentum for independence, others say their investment ...

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

Court action on Monsanto's GM cotton gets underway

... Spodoptera . Monagro said the attack was nothing to worry about as the pests - the larvae - only ate the leaves and would not affect ... Farmers growing the cotton were reported to be angry about the pest attack, as they had been told by the suppliers that the seed ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:18 - 0 attachments

Wonosobo community forestry to be cancelled

... Forestry minister Prakosa had also reservations about  Perda  22/2001. For all his talk about social forestry as the way forward for Indonesia's beleaguered forests, ... including a protest by 3,000 villagers on September 26th about the cancellation of the regulation. Local NGOs ARuPA, Koling and JKPM who ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:17 - 0 attachments

Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas - Gains at the global level

... the large conservation agencies may not have been informed about the new policies and principles adopted at international level); The ...

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

Fishing communities

... authorities. They took up local fisherfolk's complaints about the intrusion of large trawlers on their fishing grounds and the use of ... methods like cyanide poisoning or bombing and protested about falling catches to government officials, the police, the navy and ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:13 - 0 attachments

Illegal military payments by Freeport/Rio Tinto

... Jakarta, February 2006. (For more information about Yosepha Alomang, see  DTE 63 ) ...

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

DTE statement to the CGI meeting, Jakarta 7-8 Nov 2001

... insisting on any accountability from the GoI. The concerns about forest destruction which the CGI raised with the GoI through the Paris ... World Bank and the donor nations of the CGI are serious about issues of forest destruction, poverty alleviation and human rights, loans ...

Story - carolyn - 12/05/2011 - 15:26 - 0 attachments