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This independent field study shows how a pulp and paper company in Indonesia needs to respect Indigenous peoples’ customary rights to re-join the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Penelitian lapangan independen ini menunjukkan bagaimana sebuah perusahaan pulp dan kertas di Indonesia perlu menghormati hak adat masyarakat adat untuk dapat bergabung kembali dengan Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

An independent field study reveals that indigenous peoples in Indonesia lost large parts of their customary territories to a pulp and paper company’s (APRIL) plantations, without having their rights recognised, and without their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).

This report brings together a wide range of recent studies on the competitive struggle over control of land, timber and other resources in Indonesia's forest zones, providing an accessible guide to the practices and incentives generated by the country's 'Forest Politics.'

This report carried out by Forest Peoples Programme for the Global Canopy compiles what is known about the human rights impacts of palm oil development and provides guidance on how to address these abuses.

Today, we are meeting Chief Calvin Craigan of the Shishalh First Nation on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. To get to him requires a trip up the coast from Vancouver.

A new study, released today, details the main causes of these conflicts and exposes the limited resources rural Indonesians have to seek resolution and redress for land loss.

Industrialised plantations, State-sponsored resettlement schemes, integrationist government social policies, combined with land tenure systems which fail to protect customary rights, create a deadly cocktail threatening the survival of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples.

Kebijakan perkebunan industri, skema pemukiman kembali dukungan negara, kebijakan sosial pemerintah penyokong paham integrasi, yang dikombinasikan dengan sistem penguasaan tanah yang gagal melindungi hak-hak adat, menciptakan ‘ramuan’ mematikan yang mengancam kelangsungan hidup masyarakat adat Indonesia.

Ompu Ronggur, a community of the Toba Batak, a highland people of North Sumatra with an ancient tradition of resin tapping from their agroforests, found in 2004 that all of their traditional territory had been allotted to a pulp and paper company, Toba Pulp Lestari, for establishing Eucalyptus plantations.

This report aims to provide some inputs into the process of building RSPO Jurisdictional Certification from a rights-based perspective, based on case studies from Indonesia, Malysia and Ecuador.

This case study aims to provide some inputs into the process of building RSPO Jurisdictional Certification from a rights-based perspective, based on the particular case of Seruyan in Central Kalimantan.  The district of Seruyan in Central Kalimantan is one of four pilot Jurisdictional Approaches to certification announced by RSPO. Since 2018, Forest Peoples Programme and Yayasan Masyarakat Kehutanan Lestari have been engaging with the local government of Seruyan to clarify how the JA in Seruyan will address the challenge of land disputes in the province.

This case study aims to provide some inputs into the process of building RSPO Jurisdictional Certification from a rights-based perspective, based on the particular case of Sabah, Malaysia. It outlines the recommended actions necessary to ensure that the Sabah Jurisdictional Approach will recognise the full extent of indigenous peoples’ land rights, and is part of a series of detailed case studies, accompanying the report Upholding Human Rights in Jurisdictional Approaches: Some emerging lessons.

A spokesperson for Malaysian palm oil giant, Sime Darby, who labelled NGO critics as ‘toxic entities’ and called on the government to suppress them, has sparked fury. Indigenous peoples, and youth, environmental justice, labour and human rights organisations issued a statement condemning the comments and demanding freedom of expression.

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FPP's founder, Marcus Colchester, has published a paper on "Legal obstacles to territorial rights recognition, sustainable commodity production and forest conservation on forest peoples’ lands in Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia and Malaysia."

Many indigenous peoples and local communities now find themselves in areas classed as State Forests or concessions for plantations, and are thereby deprived of secure rights. The result is land conflicts all over the country.

Two new independent reports, one from Greenpeace and another joint one from the Environmental Investigation Agency and Grassroots, raise important concerns about the urgent need for the RSPO to raise its game on enforcing its standards.

Indigenous peoples’ organisations and supportive NGOs in Papua have strongly condemned a draft Indonesian Land Law Bill, initially designed to regularise land ownership and encourage sustainable investment.