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“Save KPK”, Greenpeace Indonesia projects message in protest against weakening of the anti-graft agency
Greenpeace Indonesia activists projected the slogan “Save KPK” and “Dare to be honest, fired!” ( Berani Jujur, Pecat !) onto the building of the Corruption Eradication Commission, also known as KPK, last night to protest against the weakening of the reformist anti-graft agency, after prominent investigators were dismissed over a dubious procedure.
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Licence to Clear
This report urges national and provincial governments in Indonesia to seize a fleeting opportunity to intervene in a vast area slated for deforestation for palm oil in Papua Province.
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Greenpeace report finds Indonesia is losing the battle to protect peatlands
A new Greenpeace Indonesia report, Restoration Up in Smoke: Losing the Battle to Protect Peatlands, identifies major contradictions in the Indonesian government’s claims to meet its peatland restoration targets.
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Restoration Up in Smoke: Losing the Battle to Protect Peatlands
In the absence of independent verification of the progress of peatland restoration, Greenpeace decided to conduct an analysis of the present condition of peatlands in Indonesia. The goal of this analysis is to establish the locations of the degraded peatlands which have been prioritised to be restored by the government and to assess the condition…
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From the Heart: Thailand’s ‘Guardians of the Forest’ finally speak up, vow to return their ancestral home
“We want Thai society to understand that our people have lived in the forest for countless generations. We are not intruders. We are guardians of the forest.”
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When women take a stand to protect what they love
We cannot deny that women have come a long way, their influence seen, heard and felt everywhere. Be it in the social, political, or economic spheres, women everywhere continue to make waves, even break barriers.
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An Environmental Crisis in Borneo
At the start of 2021, amidst the Covid -19 pandemic, Borneo found itself in the news with the widespread floodings in South Kalimantan. Unlike the recent devastating earthquake in Sulawesi, the floodings were triggered by a series of events that could have been prevented by the Indonesian government.
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Investigation indicates FSC-certified company intentionally used fire to clear Indonesian forests for palm oil
Greenpeace International collaborated with Forensic Architecture – a research collective based at Goldsmiths University of London, which uses spatial analysis to reconstruct cases of human rights violations and environmental destruction – to investigate whether the cause of the fires could be identified in Korindo’s palm oil concessions in Papua.
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An area eight times the size of Bali has burned in Indonesia in the last five years, new Greenpeace report shows
Greenpeace Southeast Asia's new report ‘Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire’ exposes the total failure of Indonesia’s government to protect forest and peatland from burning.
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Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire
The 2015 fire season in Indonesia was the worst in nearly two decades, with the blazes for almost a month emitting daily carbon emissions that exceeded those from the entire US economy.