A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil Jakarta / Fri, September 11 2020 An ongoing report by environmental groups suggests that the banking and financial services sector should be liable for deforestation, as they continue to provide services to clients driving massive fires that raze swathes of land and tropical forest cover in countries like Indonesia. According to […]
15th July 2020 On 9th July 2020, 14 Indonesian indigenous and human rights organisations, and the Forest Peoples Programme, submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) requesting its consideration of the situation of Dayak and other indigenous groups of Kalimantan under the Committee’s urgent action and early […]
To Korindo Group POSCO International Indonesian Presidential Staff Office Chief of Police, Indonesian National Police Office of the Inspectorate General of the National Police Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission National Human Rights Commission Indonesia Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Jakarta United Nations Human Rights Council UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Special Rapporteur […]
Civil society demand Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to investigate suspected corruption linked to Korindo and demand Indonesian state-owned bank BNI to stop financing Korindo Jakarta – A number of civil society organizations led an action in front of Indonesian state-owned bank BNI, the Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) and Corruption Eradication Commission to […]
This story was co-published with Mongabay. Part 1: ‘Maybe they didn’t expect us to find it’ InApril 2019, an Indonesian delegate stepped onto the stage at a conference hosted by Interpol, the international police organisation, at its Singapore headquarters. Among the audience were dozens of law enforcement agents from across the world, there to learn […]
World Rainforest Day June 22, 2020 To the CGF and Sustainability Steering Committee, Our planet is in crisis. Last September, a large group of civil society organizations wrote to demand evidence that the CGF and its member companies are prepared to take real action to eliminate and remedy deforestation and human rights abuses in their […]
March 30, 2020 Today, 8 NGOs issued the following joint statement in light of the Olympics postponement, urging Olympics organizers to come to terms with the negative impacts caused by Tokyo 2020’s timber procurement practices. The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee committed to publish three Sustainability Reports over the course of their Olympic-related activities. But with […]
To mark the inauguration of the New National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on December 21st, 12 NGOs issued the following statement, denouncing the Stadium’s severe negative impact on the tropical rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia as a result of its construction: “The construction of the New National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo has come at an […]
Jakarta, 21 March 2019 – Dayak Hibun indigenous peoples from Kerunang hamlet and Entapang hamlet, Bonti Sub-district, Sanggau District, West Kalimantan express their deep objection with regards to the sale of PT Mitra Austral Sejahtera (PT MAS) by Sime Darby Plantation, a Malaysian corporate entity. PT MAS, a subsidiary of Sime Darby plantation has broken […]