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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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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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Desperate forest clearing, legal uncertainty follows bungled permit review
The Indonesian government’s half-hearted forestland permit review has created a perverse incentive for forest clearing by companies desperate to retain dormant land banks. Greenpeace is calling for the policy to be clarified, to ensure companies whose permits are listed for revocation are not allowed to undertake such panic clearing.
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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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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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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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It’s only when something is gone that we realise how much we miss it.
The immense popularity of the 'Iamsterdam' sign provided the perfect means to shine a light on the deforestation that is decimating the world's largest remaining rainforest and to turn the letters into a solidarity message for the Amazon. With the inclusive 'I am', the message is also one of profound appreciation and respect for the…