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Publications and Reports - Malaysia

This site contains documents prepared by FPP, information from our partners, and other materials of relevance to indigenous peoples, forest-dependent communities and forests.

Documents are listed below, in date order. They can be downloaded free or printed copies can either be purchased online or ordered from: julia@forestpeoples.org.

All our publications are free to indigenous peoples' organisations.
Southern NGOs are entitled to a 50% discount.

Publication
Format
Land is Life
Land Rights and Oil Palm Development in Sarawak

This report reveals escalating conflicts between indigenous peoples and oil palm companies due to the rapid expansion of plantations in the Malaysian State of Sarawak. Based on field interviews with community representatives in 12 different villages the report details:
  • rapid rate of expansion of oil palm plantations in Sarawak
  • reasons for the conflicts over native customary lands
  • why some 40 legal cases about land conflicts between communities and oil palm
         companies are now clogging the courts in Sarawak
  • concerns raised by the communities about the plantations
  • how the process of oil palm development in Sarawak is contrary to international standards
         adopted by the Rountable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
  • recommendations for reform
    by Marcus Colchester, Wee Aik Pang, Wong Meng Chuo and Thomas Jalong
    Forest Peoples Programme and Perkumpulan SawitWatch
    November 2007
  • pdf (1.4Mb)
    Land, Forest and People
    Facing the Challenges in South-East Asia

    Covering Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, this report synthesizes the results of a consultative process that examined the legal frameworks, actual reality on the ground, and responses of various local organizations, governments and civil society in 2007. The process, 'Listening, Learning and Sharing', was led by the World Agroforestry Centre and the Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC), as members of the global Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), assisted by Forest Peoples Programme (FPP).
    Marcus Colchester and Chip Fay
    September 2007
    pdf (0.4Mb)
    Making FPIC - Free, Prior and Informed Consent - Work:
    Challenges and Prospects for Indigenous People

    FPP review of indigenous peoples' experiences with applying the principle of FPIC in Suriname, Guyana, Peru, Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines
    Marcus Colchester and Maurizio Farhan Ferrari
    June 2007
    pdf (0.5Mb)
    Menjadikan FPIC - Prinsip Persetujuan Tanpa Paksaan atas dasar Informasi Awal - Berjalan: Tantangan dan Peluang bagi Masyarakat Adat
    Laporan tentang 'pekerjaan yang tengah berlangsung' ini menyarikan sejumlah pengalaman masyarakat adat dalam penerapan prinsip FPIC di Suriname, Guyana, Peninsular Malaysia, Peru, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea dan Filipina
    Marcus Colchester dan Maurizio Farhan Ferrari
    Juni 2007
    pdf (0.5Mb)
    Poniendo en práctica el CLPI -Consentimiento libre, previo e informado-
    Desafíos y perspectivas para los Pueblos Indígenas

    El informe resume algunas experiencias de pueblos indígenas con referencia a la aplicación del principio de consentimiento libre, previo e informado en Suriname, Guyana, Malasia peninsular, Perú, Indonesia, Papua Nueva Guinea y Filipinas
    Marcus Colchester y Maurizio Farhan Ferrari
    Junio de 2007
    pdf (0.5Mb)
    Pour une bonne application du libre consentement préalable et éclairé :
    Défis et perspectives pour les peuples autochtones

    Ce rapport présente un résumé de certaines expériences des peuples autochtones dans l'application du principe de libre consentement préalable et éclairé au Suriname, au Guyana, en Malaisie péninsulaire, au Pérou, en Indonésie, en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée et aux Philippines
    Marcus Colchester et Maurizio Farhan Ferrari
    Juin 2007
    pdf (0.5Mb)
    Sarawak - Logging company workers break up peaceful protests by Penan people
    attempting to defend their ancestral forest territory

    FPP letter of protest to High Commissioner of Malaysia
    July 2006
    html
    Certifying the oil palm plantation business and protecting indigenous peoples' rights
    Summary of presentation by Colin Nicholas, Center for Orang Asli Concerns, to the
    Public Forum on Sustainable Palm Oil, Kuala Lumpur
    January 2005
    pdf
     
    Malaysia's attempts to greenwash its timber practices
    Report on campaign to support JOANGOHutan demands and reject the seriously flawed Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) timber certification
    February 2004
    html
    Protected areas: protected against whom?
    Oilwatch and WRM
    2004
    look & buy
    Mangroves: local livelihoods versus corporate profits
    WRM
    2002
    look & buy
    Manglares: sustento local versus ganancia empresarial
    WRM
    2002
    descubre y compra
    Mangroves : subsistance locale vs profits des enterprises
    WRM
    2002
    découvrez et achetez
    Indigenous peoples and protected areas in South and Southeast Asia:
    From principles to practice

    Edited by Marcus Colchester and Christian Erni
    Twelve case studies by indigenous communities affected by protected areas, as presented at the FPP/IWGIA conference of December 1998, held in Sabah, Malaysia
    1999
    look & buy
    High Stakes: The need to control transnational logging companies:
    A Malaysian case study

    WRM and Forests Monitor
    August 1998
    Estacas Altas: La necesidad de controlar a las empresas madereras transnacionales:
    un estudio de caso Malasio

    WRM y Forests Monitor
    Agosto 1998
    look & buy
    Les enjeux déterminants : La nécessité de contrôler les sociétés d’exploitation forestière transnationales
    Une étude du cas de la Malaisie

    WRM y Forests Monitor
    Août 1998
    découvrez et achetez
    Taruhan Yang Tinggi: Keperluan mengawal syarikat pembalakan transnasional:
    kajian kes de Malaysia

    WRM dan Forests Monitor
    Ogos 1998
    look & buy

     

     
     

     

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