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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.

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.

Plantation companies seeking to avoid destroying forests and causing climate change have been advised to set aside forests and peatlands within their concessions. But what are the implications for forest peoples? Do they benefit or does this further curtail their rights?

Perusahaan perkebunan yang berupaya menghindari penghancuran dan menyebabkan perubahan iklim telah disarankan untuk menyisihkan hutan dan lahan gambut di dalam konsesi mereka. Tapi apa implikasinya bagi masyarakat hutan? Apakah mereka mendapatkan manfaat atau apakah ini akan membatasi hak-hak mereka lebih lanjut?

This is the concluding chapter of 'Conflict or Consent? The oil palm sector at a crossroads'.This chapter looks at the conclusions and recommendations to be made from the studies within this document.The findings of these studies expose the gulf that exists between the law and the RSPO standard and point to the urgent need for governance and legal reforms to adequately protect community rights from expropriation and provide just remedies for abuses. Equally critical are development processes achieved through legal, policy and governance reforms to protect indigenous peoples’ and farmers' land rights, prevent ‘land grabs’, ensure fair processes of negotiation over land, build community capacity and ensure mechanisms for the resolution of land conflicts. Full supply chain traceability is needed in which environmental protections are matched with comprehensive protections of human rights. Such accountability should equally apply to investors. Widespread and effective compliance with the RSPO standard depends on respect for human rights, good governance, transparency, accountability, rule of law and access to justice. While the RSPO standard itself needs to be strengthened and enforced, so long as national laws and policies allocate lands to companies without respect for community rights, company compliance will be hard to achieve and further conflict inevitable.

This is the sixth chapter of 'Conflict or Consent? The oil palm sector at a crossroads'.To view the document as a whole please click here.

This is the first chapter of 'Conflict or Consent? The oil palm sector at a crossroads'.Click here to read this chapterTo view the document as a whole please click here.Introduction

This paper is a comparative review of rights across a number of existing voluntary standards drawn from a technical workshop in Bangkok in October 2012 organised by Forest Peoples Programme with the support of RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, and the Rights and Resources Initiative.

This report provides an account of a short investigation carried out by the RSPO's Ad Hoc Working Group on High Conservation Values in Indonesia. It is being circulated to promote comprehension and discussion about the legal and procedural obstacles to securing such values in the oil palm sector in Indonesia with the view to promoting changes and legal reforms in order to secure these values more effectively. This version includes detailed comments on the report by Wilmar International.

Oil palm plantations are expanding to meet escalating demand for edible oils and new markets for biofuels - of which Indonesia plans to secure a large share. But the widespread forest clearasnce to cater for this expansion has major implications for rural Indonesians, affecting settlements, ecosystems, trade activities and government agencies. This research documents the issues affecting local communities and their recommendations for national reforms to safegurad their rights under international law.