March 2017

The Sustainable Palm Oil Certification Scheme Must Be Redesigned

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PRESS RELEASECivil Society Representative Group for the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Industry Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Along with World Forest Day, our civil society representative groups expressed a shared attitude regarding Indonesia’s sustainable palm oil industry through a position paper as a form of active and transparent participation in the ‘strengthening’ process, namely fundamental reform […]

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Certification Scheme For Sustainable Palm Oil Need to be Re-Designed

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PRESS RELEASE Indonesian Civil Society Groups for Sustainable Palm Oil Industry Tuesday, March 21, 2017. – On the International Day of Forests, we, a group of civil society representatives released a joint message regarding sustainable palm oil industry in Indonesia through a position paper that highlights the need of active participation and transparency in the

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Making Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) work for forests, people and the climate: Civil society recommendations on the future of VPAs

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As decision makers in the European Union (EU) and timber producing countries consider the future of the FLEGT Action Plan, and its Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA), civil society organisations and platforms from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Honduras, Indonesia, Republic of the Congo, Vietnam, and Europe have issued Making

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Oil Palm Concessions in Forest Areas on Sumatra Island

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The rapid increase that occurred in Indonesia in palm oil production was almost exclusively through land expansion in the region reaching 92 percent, rather than intensification and increase in production. Land available for agricultural expansion began to be scarce on the islands of Java and Sumatra, the Government expanded oil palm plantations in Kalimantan and

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