Resources
Submission to CERD (UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) by twelve NGOs
The severe threat to indigenous peoples' survival in Kalimantan, Indonesia, by the government's proposed 850km-long oil palm plantation on part of the traditionally owned territories of the indigenous peoples of this region
The Nagari community, business and the state: The origin and the process of contemporary agrarian protests in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Book available on request from FPP at info@forestpeoples.org and WRM at www.wrm.org.uy
This careful research in five self-governing Minangkabau communities (Nagari) in West Sumatra situates present-day conflicts between rural communities and palm oil developers in their historical and institutional context.
ISBN 979-15188-1-5 303 pages World Rainforest Movement