On 23 August 2012, REDD-Monitor posted an interview with Scott Poynton, the Executive Director of TFT. It is the longest interview on REDD-Monitor (so far) and covers several controversial issues. After a week it hadn’t generated any comments. I’m delighted to say that that has now changed.
Category: Indonesia
Interview with Scott Poynton, TFT: “We help companies clean up their supply chains – that is the way we need to go to protect the world’s forests”
Interview with Scott Poynton, Executive Director, TFT, Jakarta, June 2012.
Carbon, crime and impunity in Indonesia’s plantation sector
Central Kalimantan is the REDD Pilot Province under the Indonesia-Norway US$1 billion REDD deal. Here, if anywhere, we should see the evidence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s recent statement that “Indonesia has reversed course by committing to sustainable forestry.” Unfortunately, the evidence points to business as usual.
If Indonesia’s President is serious about addressing deforestation, why is Tripa still ablaze?
“Forests are so dear to my heart,” said Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in September 2011. In the same speech, he said he would dedicate the next three years to protecting Indonesia’s forests. So why are the Tripa peat swamp forests in Aceh still burning to make way for oil palm plantations?
As Indonesia’s president talks of “sustainable growth with equity”, Tripa continues to burn
Today, Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is giving a policy address at CIFOR on the theme “Forests in the Future We Want”. He’s painting a rosy picture of the way Indonesia has addressed the problems that the forest sector caused in the past.