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Foreign investment and regional autonomy

... Autonomy minister Ryaas Rasyid was moved to complain about the impact on Indonesia's investment climate. He reported that Singapore ...

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

Save our people and forests, say Papuans

... for conversion to plantations and other uses. Only about 18 million hectares of forests are estimated to remain intact on around ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:02 - 0 attachments

Plantations and Poverty: Notes from a village deep in oil palm territory

... and Poverty adds to the growing store of information about the village-level impacts of the international trade in oil palm. The ...

Story - carolyn - 04/15/2011 - 09:23 - 1 attachment

Sulawesi communities reject Rio Tinto's CPM mine

... usually little or no consultation with local communities about the plans, let alone consent from them. The process of land acquisition ... It is concerned that the company has not consulted it about the test bores it had done or the proposed changes to the park boundary. ...

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

International concerns over illegal logging dominate Indonesian forest policy

... Meanwhile, the need to bring about fundamental reform is not addressed. Down to ... No. 58, August 2003 Meanwhile, the need to bring about fundamental reform is not addressed. The international ...

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

New pollution study corners Newmont

...  24/Sep/04). For more information about the campaign for justice for the Buyat Bay community see  ... says it has received many complaints from local people about the pollution. WALHI reports that local fishermen had found more than ... and JATAM accuse the government of being concerned only about protecting foreign investors' interests and ignoring people's health by ...

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

Forests Update 2005

... These support his policy announcement made in July about speeding up the establishment of fastwood plantations to supply the ...

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

Mpur peoples and development

... Development from Down to Earth on Vimeo . About Mnukwar: bringing about change through film-making Armed with medium-size video cameras and ...

Story - carolyn - 03/20/2014 - 15:56 - 0 attachments

When Indigenous Peoples fight for their land rights

... of problems is the lack of understanding on all sides about land legislation. Conflict in Aceh Singkil, the land of Hamzah ... issued to PT Ubertraco, at first many people did not know about it because there were no boundary posts. Due to the lack of marked ...

Story - carolyn - 12/21/2012 - 18:20 - 0 attachments

Tighten up human rights & environment rules for mining companies, British MPs told

... the NGO representatives for one and a half hours about the written evidence they had submitted in advance. LMN’s submission ... working on the extractives industry, what their views were about engaging with extractive companies, how far it was damaging or otherwise ...

Story - carolyn - 03/06/2014 - 11:47 - 3 attachments