Corruption and REDD at the international level: A presentation I gave at Transparency International Indonesia’s Jakarta office at the launch of their report “Keeping REDD+ clean”.
Category: Indonesia
Indonesia’s Forest Investment Plan endorsed despite criticisms from civil society
In March 2012, Indonesian NGOs wrote to the Joint Forest Investment Program Team to protest at the poor consultation process and demanded that the process of preparing the Forest Investment Plan is postponed until their were met.
Indonesia is “open for big business” and failing to protect its people and forests
“You can find almost everything in Indonesia,” said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the first Indonesia Investment Day in New York last month. “Oil and gas, coal, geothermal energy, tin, copper, nickel, aluminum, bauxite, iron, cacao, coffee. When it comes to oil, we have oil underground, under the sea and even above the ground: palm…
Oil palm plantations replacing forests in Kalimantan
A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change confirms that the expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has come largely at the expense of the country’s forests. Between 1990 and 2010, 90% of oil palm plantations in Kalimantan were established on forested land (47% intact, 22% logged, 21% agroforests).
Indonesia treats its indigenous peoples “worse than any other country in the world” – Survival International
On 13 September 2007, the Indonesian Government adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Five years later, Survival International announced that “Indonesia treats its indigenous and tribal people, especially in West Papua, worse than any other country in the world.” What went wrong?