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Targeting illegal logging in West Papua

... extent of deforestation and ignoring even its own evidence about the country's dwindling forests. The Forestry Department's website says ... West Papua under large-scale logging licences. These cover about thirty times as much forest as community logging permits. Due to the vast ...

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

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

NGOs accused of 'crying wolf' over Tangguh human rights risks

... has now started exporting LNG, amid continuing concerns about social and environmental impacts. DTE 82, ... has now started exporting LNG, amid continuing concerns about social and environmental impacts. After many delays, the Tangguh ...

Story - carolyn - 06/27/2011 - 13:44 - 0 attachments

Reading the signs of climate change with the Belu Community

... study is a collection of the communities'opinions about, and experiences of, climate change. Rainfall One of the ... people in Belu district, haven't had access to information about the global drivers of climate change, they have tended to look for local ...

Story - carolyn - 01/06/2011 - 15:33 - 0 attachments

TRANSFORMING THE INDONESIAN UPLANDS: Marginality, Power and Production

... Publishers. ISBN: 90-5702-400-4 Much has been written about the effects of the modernisation of agriculture, deforestation and the ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:00 - 0 attachments

Loggers rush to strip Siberut

... the park. Some of this was due to lack of understanding about Siberut's status as a MAB Reserve and about UNESCO's intentions (even amongst some conservation staff). Some was ...

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

The state of local democracy

... have taken a more pro-active attitude and have clear ideas about what they mean by regional autonomy, and what they want from it. ...

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