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The social and environmental impacts of large-scale oil palm plantations in Indonesia have been exposed by national and international civil society organisations. But women's experiences have received far less attention. Activists on women's rights and on oil palm issues and women have recently started to redress the balance.
August 14, 2007
The position and role of indigenous women facing development aggression. By Devi Anggraini
August 14, 2007
Indonesia's most prominent environment group, WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) has repeated its call for a logging moratorium across the country. The NGO says that annual deforestation is running at 2.72 million hectares - an area the size of Bali.
August 14, 2007
Indonesia's forestry department is allocating millions of hectares of land to a new scheme aimed at increasing the supply for wood for the pulp and timber industries, as well as tackling poverty. But serious flaws with the 'peoples plantations' programme are raising concerns that the scheme could do more harm than good.
August 14, 2007
Mounting global concern over climate change and the link to deforestation has refocused international attention on the need to protect the world's forests.
August 14, 2007
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May 16, 2007
Some 1,500 indigenous representatives and their supporters - including DTE's staff - gathered in Pontianak,West Kalimantan, for the third AMAN Congress in March 2007 to discuss the priorities of the indigenous movement in Indonesia and to choose a new leadership.
May 14, 2007
