Recursos
The Sakai: Asia Pulp and Paper and the indigenous peoples of Sumatra: towards remedy?
19 Jan 2024
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).
Customary rights in APRIL Plantations: Findings from a field study
20 Apr 2023
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).
Forest Politics in Indonesia: Drivers of Deforestation and Dispossession
02 Mar 2023
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.'
First Resources' shadow hangs over the Dayak Agabag
28 Nov 2022
In the Palm Oil sector, it is increasingly common for corporate groups owned by an individual or family to conceal control of problematic assets.
Human Rights Impact Assessment of oil palm development in two districts in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
25 Jun 2021
A wide-ranging human rights impact assessment reveals systemic human rights abuses in the palm oil sector in ‘Jurisdictional Approach’ pilots in Indonesia.
Demanding Accountability - Lessons from ten case studies of the Indonesian palm oil sector
15 Jun 2021
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.
Exigiendo responsabilidad - Fortaleciendo la rendición de cuentas empresarial y reformando la debida diligencia de la cadena de suministro para proteger los derechos humanos y salvaguardar el medio ambiente
15 Jun 2021
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.
Partner Portraits: Champions of Marine and Coastal Communities and Landscapes
12 Apr 2021
This “meet the partner” edition highlights our partners who have been part of a project to promote and support biological and cultural diversity in marine and coastal socio-ecological systems.
Self-determined land rights in Indonesia: A review on various tenure recognition options
23 Feb 2021
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.
Indonesia - Rollback in the time of COVID-19
18 Feb 2021
Summary
This paper highlights the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and disenfranchised indigenous peoples and forest communities in Indonesia.
Report: New investigation reveals oil palm industry’s use of shadow companies to circumvent social and environmental commitments in Indonesia
04 Feb 2021
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.
REPORT: The Plan to Plunder Borneo’s Final Frontier
08 Dec 2020
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.
New FPP report analyses impacts and underlying inequalities around COVID-19 for indigenous and tribal peoples
08 Dec 2020
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.
Un nuevo informe del FPP analiza los impactos y las desigualdades subyacentes en torno a COVID-19 para los pueblos indígenas y tribales
08 Dec 2020
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.
Indigenous women’s realities: Insights from the Indigenous Navigator
25 Oct 2020
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.
Video: Breaking the Heart of Borneo
21 Sep 2020
Borneo’s borderlands – harbouring some of the oldest and most biodiverse tropical rainforests in the world - are at the epicentre of Indonesia and Malaysia’s oil palm expansion where over half of all deforestation is attributed to the monocrop, threating the home of thousands of indigenous communities.