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West Papuan Indigenous Defender Files Lawsuit Over Palm Oil Company Forestland Grab
Indigenous leader, Hendrikus ‘Franky’ Woro, today filed an environmental and land rights lawsuit challenging the plan by a Malaysian-owned palm oil company to clear tens…
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Transparency, Indigenous Rights Need Inking in to Indonesia-Norway Forests Agreement
As representatives of Indonesia and Norway work over the coming weeks on the details of a renewed climate partnership, Greenpeace Indonesia points to some important issues for inclusion to ensure the agreement does help to bring about urgently needed change to Indonesia’s trajectory of deforestation.
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Half-Measures Won’t Protect the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Grime Nawa Valley
A flurry of forestry permit revocations by President Joko Widodo in early 2022 now seems to have been little more than a charade, with no subsequent law enforcement efforts by the national government.
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From Lake Toba, Women Activists Urge W20 To Protect Indigenous Women’s Rights 
A giant banner unfurled by a team of local women activists reading "North Sumatran Women Against Deforestation" floats upon Lake Toba.
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Okmoi people file an administrative lawsuit to revoke EIA report
The lawsuit specifically challenges the coal mine's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and aims to ensure that the flawed EIA is revoked, and a new assessment is conducted in a transparent manner and with meaningful participation from the affected local communities.
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Protect Indigenous Peoples and Forests: Revoke Plantation Permits for PT Permata Nusa Mandiri
JOINT STATEMENT Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability in Tanah Papua
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West Papuan Indigenous Rights vs Palm Oil Company Land Grab: Landmark Court Case Enters Decisive Final Week
NGOs are stepping up calls for Indonesia’s national government to show support for Indigenous rights in West Papua as a landmark court case enters its final week of hearings.
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Deceased Estate: Illegal palm oil wiping out Indonesia’s national forest
Indonesia’s remaining forests are at the nexus of intersecting crises of dwindling biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous rights violations. Megadiverse and carbon rich, these forests are home to over 2,000 Indigenous communities for whom cultural identity and livelihood are bound up with the land.
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Greenpeace on Global Witness report: Urgent protection of environmental defenders needed
Greenpeace Philippines echoes the recommendations of the Global Witness report that companies and governments must be held accountable for the violence and persecution of land and environmental defenders.
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Greenpeace Southeast Asia reactive to FSC cutting ties with Korindo
“It is crucial that buyers and certification bodies call out Korindo for its greenwashing and lack of transparency in its supply chains.