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President Jokowi must accept fires verdict and show he is serious about ending forest fires and people’s suffering
The Supreme Court of Indonesia last week rejected an appeal filed by President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo against a ruling that his national administration and its provincial counterpart failed to do enough to prevent the devastating forest fires which ravaged West and Central Kalimantan and many other provinces during 2015. Indonesia’s highest court reinforced the earlier…
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50 million hectares of forests destroyed worldwide, as palm oil sector in Indonesia continues unreformed
By 2020, at least fifty million hectares of forest – an area the size of Spain – is set to be destroyed for commodities despite ten years of corporate commitments to end deforestation, according to a new Greenpeace International report.
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Indonesian government actively blocking efforts to reform palm oil industry
Ministers in the Government of President Joko Widodo are blocking efforts to reform the palm oil industry. Last week the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs ordered palm oil companies not to share information regarding the palm concessions they own.
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Greenpeace occupies refinery loaded with dirty palm oil in Indonesia
Bitung North Sulawesi, Indonesia - Thirty Greenpeace activists are currently occupying a palm oil refinery belonging to Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader and supplies major brands including Colgate, Mondelez, Nestlé and Unilever.
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Time for a ban on deforestation for palm oil, not a moratorium, says Greenpeace
Jakarta, 21 September - Indonesia’s President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has partially frozen new palm oil concessions in Indonesia for the next three years. [1] The moratorium only applies to land controlled by the Ministry of Forestry and does not cover land controlled by regional government or forest within existing palm oil concessions - leaving millions…
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Greenpeace investigation exposes how world’s biggest brands are still linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia
Jakarta, Wednesday 19 September 2018 - Palm oil suppliers to the world’s largest brands, including Unilever, Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive and Mondelez, have destroyed an area of rainforest almost twice the size of Singapore in less than three years, according to a new investigation by Greenpeace International.
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Fires burning inside palm oil concessions linked to major household brands
Fires have broken out inside palm oil concessions in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, belonging to suppliers to some of the biggest household brands in the world,
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World Orangutan Day: Numbers still in decline despite Indonesian government’s new claims
This World Orangutan Day marks a critical time for the Bornean Orangutan, whose numbers are rapidly declining experts say.
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Land management ministry awarded ‘trophy’ for year-long defiance of supreme court order to open forest data
NGOs took action today in front of the Indonesian ministry responsible for lands to protest its failure to implement a Supreme Court decision ordering forest data be released to the public.
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World’s largest palm oil trader linked to rainforest destruction twice the size of Paris
Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction for palm oil almost five years after committing to end deforestation.