Considerations for benchmarking Indonesia’s EUDR readiness – What the palm oil example reveals
The European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) brings opportunities for Indonesia to fight deforestation. However, the implementation of EUDR in Indonesia still faces many challenges. This position paper provides suggestions for improving the EUDR Benchmarking methodology to make it more effective in protecting Indonesia's forests. Civil society report examines Indonesia's palm oil sector and provides suggestions for development of benchmarking methodology. Although national laws support controlling deforestation, their implementation is often ignored in favor of the 2020 Omnibus Job Creation Law which favors commercial activities, harming the rights of indigenous peoples, environmental protection and anti-corruption efforts. Palm oil deforestation, which had [...]
JOIN STATEMENT LETTER #SAVEARU COALITION REVOKE PT WANA SEJAHTERA ABADI PERMIT AND STOP THE MELCHOR GROUP CARBON TRADING PERMIT PROCESS IN ARU ISLANDS, MALUKU GalleryJOIN STATEMENT LETTER #SAVEARU COALITION REVOKE PT WANA SEJAHTERA ABADI PERMIT AND STOP THE MELCHOR GROUP CARBON TRADING PERMIT PROCESS IN ARU ISLANDS, MALUKU
JOIN STATEMENT LETTER #SAVEARU COALITION REVOKE PT WANA SEJAHTERA ABADI PERMIT AND STOP THE MELCHOR GROUP CARBON TRADING PERMIT PROCESS IN ARU ISLANDS, MALUKU
The #SaveAru Coalition, which consists of activists from civil society organizations, women, youth and students, indigenous peoples and local communities in the Aru Islands, dissent the investment plan for Forest Utilization Business Permit (PBPH) by PT Wana Sejahtera Abadi (WSA), and PT Alam Subur Indonesia and PT Bumi Lestari Internasional, a subsidiary of Melchor Group Indonesia. The Aru Community's rejection of large-scale land-based investments have the potential to damage nature and destroy the community's water sources and livelihoods has occurred repeatedly. In 2013, the people of Aru dissented the Menara Group's sugar plantation investment plan, which covers almost 70% of [...]
Press Release : Independent Monitoring as a National Park Protection in Bengkulu, West Sumatra and South Sumatra Provinces
JPIK explained the results of monitoring deforestation and illegal logging that occurred in the Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) area in the provinces of Bengkulu, South Sumatra and West Sumatra. The press conference held on Tuesday, December 19th 2023 was also attended by media colleagues. From the results of monitoring in Bengkulu, there were encroachment locations where there were still burning residue, white meranti wood and kruing found and oil palm plantations in the area. Furthermore, the findings in South Sumatra also show that there is clearing of new land and parking lots for trucks loaded with wood. Pesisir Selatan [...]
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY COALITION REGARDING THE FORMATION OF THE JOINT TASK FORCE REGULATION OF DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION FREE COMMODITIES FOREST GalleryJOINT STATEMENT OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY COALITION REGARDING THE FORMATION OF THE JOINT TASK FORCE REGULATION OF DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION FREE COMMODITIES FOREST
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY COALITION REGARDING THE FORMATION OF THE JOINT TASK FORCE REGULATION OF DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION FREE COMMODITIES FOREST
This joint statement was prepared by a coalition of civil society movements in Indonesia consisting of various groups, including CSOs, independent oil palm farmer unions, oil palm plantation workers, indigenous community organizations, local communities, women and youth. They welcomed the joint initiative between Indonesia, Malaysia and the European Union to form a Joint Task Force (JTF) to face the European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR). The formation of the JTF will have a positive impact in increasing dialogue regarding traceability and transparency of agricultural commodity supply chains that are at risk of causing deforestation and forest degradation. Unfortunately, the first consultation [...]
Indonesian CSOs Joint Statement on the European Union Due Diligence Regulation Proposal
Timber suspected to be the result of illegal logging in one of the Central Kalimantan Province HPHs (JPIK) We, the undersigned Indonesian civil society groups, welcome the proposal of the European Union Due Diligence Regulation (EUDDR) which will regulate deforestation-free and forest degradation-free commodities and products. This marks a serious step-change in the response of consumer countries in Europe to the pressing challenges of the climate crisis, including the realization that the European Union’s consumption of various commodities and their derivatives is one of the causes of increasing biodiversity loss and an active contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. [...]
Press Release Environmental Crimes and Human Rights Violations by PT. TPL
Medan, 18th November 2021. Deforestation in Indonesia is largely the result of a corrupt political and economic system, which regards Natural Resources, particularly forests, as a source of income that can be exploited for political gain and corporate gain. In North Sumatra, there is a PT. TPL company has been practicing deforestation for decades, which has given rise to various kinds of polemics, one of which is the practice of large-scale land-use experts in the Tele landscape area. Tele-scape has a very important ecological function for the Lake Toba [...]