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7 Maio 2020
JAKARTA — Two people have died in a series of land disputes between major companies and rural communities in Indonesia.
Activists have denounced the escalation in the conflicts, saying businesses shouldn’t be taking advantage of the country’s focus on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic to further…
24 Abril 2020
At first sight, the COVID-19 crisis seems to have little to do with the way people manage their agricultural lands and forest resources. But the opposite may be true.
Researchers have suggested that deforestation and wildlife trafficking are underlying causes of zoonotic diseases—diseases that are…
18 Novembro 2019
Em todo o mundo, as comunidades estão lutando para defender suas terras, ar, água, florestas e seus meios de subsistência de projetos prejudiciais e atividades extrativistas com fortes impactos ambientais e sociais: mineração, represas, plantações de árvores, fracking, queima de gás, incineradores…
15 Novembro 2019
Date: 12 novembre 2019
Source: Farmlandgrab, RFI
Par: Claire Fages
En Indonésie, la police vient de désigner le dirigeant d'une compagnie d'huile de palme comme le commanditaire du meurtre de deux défenseurs des petits planteurs, dans une concession de l'île de Sumatra. L'industrie de l'…
11 Novembro 2019
Um executivo indonésio de óleo de palma foi presso por supostamente ordenar a morte de dois jornalistas que estavam a mediar uma disputa de terras entre a sua empresa e os moradores locais.
O corpo de Maraden Sianipar foi encontrado na semana passada numa vala perto de uma plantação de palmeiras…
6 Novembro 2019
The people of Indonesia’s Aru Islands fended off a land grab that would have led to the destruction of a vast area of rainforest, through a sophisticated grassroots campaign that held power to account.
The campaign holds lessons for rural communities facing similar threats, but their prospects…
21 Outubro 2019
Um melhor gerenciamento das fazendas e florestas do mundo pode contribuir com até um terço dos cortes de emissões necessários para evitar mudanças climáticas devastadoras, disse nesta segunda-feira (21) uma equipe internacional de cientistas.
Eles afirmaram que países como Brasil, China e…
10 Outubro 2019
Individuals from Indonesia and Liberia embroiled in land disputes with oil palm plantations have visited the Netherlands to call on the Dutch banks facilitating these companies’ operations to take action.
The companies in question are PT Astra Agro Lestari in Indonesia and Golden Veroleum Liberia,…
1 Outubro 2019
Indonesia’s outgoing parliament has decided to hold off passing a slate of new bills, including on mining and on land reforms, that have been criticized as being pro-business and anti-environment.
The decision comes amid massive student-led protests across the country in response to the earlier…
27 Setembro 2019
Indonesia’s parliament is rushing to pass a controversial mining bill by Sept. 30, when the current legislators’ term ends.
President Joko Widodo had previously asked for deliberations of this bill and other contentious pieces of legislation to be suspended, following massive student-led protests…
26 Setembro 2019
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces, Human Rights Watch said in a report. Loss of forest occurs on a massive scale and not only harms…
24 Setembro 2019
Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and commercial fruit orchards in the Philippines have uprooted indigenous people and rural communities from their land, despite laws put in place to protect them, human rights groups said.
Powerful businesses, corrupt officials and paramilitary groups are fuelling…