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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).

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.'

In the Palm Oil sector, it is increasingly common for corporate groups owned by an individual or family to conceal control of problematic assets.

A wide-ranging human rights impact assessment reveals systemic human rights abuses in the palm oil sector in ‘Jurisdictional Approach’ pilots in Indonesia.

Household names including Nestlé, PepsiCo, Wilmar and Unilever and associated global financial institutions and investors continue to ‘turn a blind eye’ to human rights abuses in their palm oil supply chains, finds a new report out today.

Nombres conocidos como Nestlé, PepsiCo, Wilmar y Unilever, así como instituciones financieras e inversores mundiales asociados, siguen "haciendo la vista gorda" ante las violaciones de los derechos humanos en sus cadenas de suministro de aceite de palma, según un nuevo informe publicado hoy.

The State’s recognition towards indigenous peoples (adat community) in Indonesia continues to grow after its political and law reform. Dozens of regulations in the central government level and hundreds of other regulations have been passed to recognize the existence, territory, and rights of adat community.

Summary This paper highlights the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and disenfranchised indigenous peoples and forest communities in Indonesia.

The use of ‘shadow companies’ is systemic within the oil palm industry. FPP’s new investigation into one of the most notorious oil palm operators in Indonesia finds substantial evidence the group is disguising its interests in companies whose beneficial owners are registered in a secrecy jurisdiction. These shadow companies are also responsible for extensive deforestation, peat land clearance and human rights abuses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an alarming spike in forest loss in Indonesia and has been used to defend one of the biggest legislative changes in the country’s history: the Omnibus Bill. This sweeping deregulation rolls back on already weak protections for the archipelago’s indigenous population and leaves their lands increasingly vulnerable to appropriation. 

As news of vaccines begins to emerge, signalling at least the beginning of the end of the pandemic that has so altered our ways of living this year, we offer this report as a contribution to understanding the impact of COVID-19 on indigenous and tribal peoples.

A medida que se difunde la noticia de la creación de vacunas, indicando el principio del fin de la pandemia que tanto ha alterado nuestras formas de vida este año, ofrecemos este informe como una contribución a la comprensión del impacto del COVID-19 sobre los pueblos indígenas y tribales.

Alors que la nouvelle de vaccins commençait à se répandre, signalant au moins le début de la fin de la pandémie qui a chamboulé nos modes de vie cette année, ce rapport a pour but de mieux comprendre les effets de la COVID-19 sur les peuples autochtones et tribaux.

The result of a collective and community-led data-gathering exercise relying on the Indigenous Navigator framework and tools, this report identifies and discusses the experiences, needs, concerns and aspirations of indigenous women in 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

International Labour Organization Article 24 Representation Non-Observance of Convention No.111 by the Republic of Indonesia Submitted by SERIKAT BURUH PERKEBUNAN INDONESIA (SERBUNDO)

FPP and BothENDS have provided a submission the UN Special Rapportuer on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, as a contribution to her crucial thematic report on the criminalisation of indigenous peoples.

FPP y Both ENDS han entregado una presentación (disponible solo en inglés) para la Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, como contribución a su crucial informe temático sobre la criminalización

FPP et Both ENDS ont transmis une communication (disponible en anglais uniquement) à la Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, qui est une contribution à son rapport thématique primordial sur la criminalisation