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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

Arrests at World Oceans Conference

... a peaceful gathering to highlight civil society concerns about the World Oceans Conference (WOC), and the Coral Triangle Initiative ... crisis. 1 The groups are also concerned about a proposed scheme to link carbon markets to the oceans, which is being ...

Story - carolyn - 12/06/2010 - 14:57 - 0 attachments

The 1997 fires: Responsibility rests with Suharto

... was too late. The timber and plantation bosses too, went about their business as usual, clearing the land in the cheapest way they knew ... to deal with a deepening currency crisis and went about its more mundane political business. The efforts that were made to ...

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

Challenging the position of the state vis à vis indigenous peoples

... by Congress delegates at the end of a week of discussions about issues facing indigenous peoples. Down to ... by Congress delegates at the end of a week of discussions about issues facing indigenous peoples. Long before Indonesia became a ...

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

Tangguh - adapting to the West Papuan context?

... all members of TIAP, were so fulsome in their assertions about BP's reception in Bintuni Bay. Reverend Herman Saud, the panel's only Papuan member, talked about jealousies amongst the local people, the risk of those feelings being ...

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

Oil palm plantations? Carbon credits? Papua's forests targeted

... credits for trade on international markets. Decisions about these developments will very probably be made over the heads of the ... untouched 3 . The latest schemes being talked about for Papua are a major expansion in oil palm plantations and setting aside ...

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

Rights & environmental disputes flare

... on their people): under regional autonomy, decision-making about oil and gas remains firmly under central government control. ...

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