PT HIP conflict continues with land occupation by community On Wednesday, 4 February, dozens of residents from Buol Regency, Central Sulawesi, originating from Mopu Village, Bukal Subdistrict, and several other villages, occupied palm oil land in Mopu Village, which...
Every year, companies from the European Union (EU), such as Germany, Belgium, and Spain, export hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous pesticides to countries outside Europe. Many of the toxic substances in these pesticides are banned in EU countries themselves...
October 29, 2025 TO: Joseph D’Cruz, Chief Executive Officer, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil CC: Pravin Rajandran, Head of Grievance, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Dear Mr. D’Cruz: This June, the RSPO announced that it was closing post-complaint monitoring of...
Data Collection Method: “TPOLS News-Recap” is intended as a medium for circulating news summaries arising from various TPOLS social platforms and collaborative activities within the TPOLS Network, in two languages (Indonesian and English). Given the...
Once again, the Indonesian state has revealed its loyalty to capital owners rather than its people. This time, a wave of protests by workers, students, and civil society was met with excessive violence, leaving casualties behind. An online motorcycle taxi driver was...
Data Collection Method: “TPOLS News-Recap” is intended as a medium for circulating news summaries arising from various TPOLS social platforms and collaborative activities within the TPOLS Network, in two languages (Indonesian and English). Given the...
Collective press release | Embargoed until 1 July 2025 For decades, communities neighbouring the Socfin group's plantations worldwide have railed against the company's abusive practices, which range from land grabs to sexual violence. Now their complaints have been...
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the conference “Just Transition in the Palm Oil Sector – International Solidarity and Socio-ecological Transformation” held from the 3rd to the 4th of December 2024 in Bern, Switzerland. It was a follow-up to the...
Introduction On 28-29th November 2023, an international conference on “Just Transition in the Palm Oil Industry” was held in Sambas, West Kalimantan in Indonesia. The conference was attended by 140 participants, mainly from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia,...
How can we achieve a just transition in the palm oil industry? Currently, Indonesia is burning. Besides the climate crisis, a major cause is the palm oil industry with its monocultures, deforestation, land grabbing and burning of peat grounds. While the 16...
What would our future look like when our presence is rooted in monoculture? What would climate governance look like under the supremacy of monoculture? Indonesians, from commoners, bureaucrats, elites, to even those who are afflicted by monocrop economy have this...
Syngenta is an agrochemical firm, headquartered in Switzerland and owned by the Chinese conglomerate ChemChina since 2017. Together with Bayer-Monsanto, BASF and Corteva, these four companies dominate the market [1] for pesticides [2], commercial seeds, and...
Transnational Palm and Oil Labour Solidarity (TPOLS) Network is urging the Indonesian government to immediately declare the forest and land fires (Karhutla) in Kalimantan and Sumatra a national disaster and to end impunity for corporations damaging the environment....
WILDFIRES, FLOODS, AND DROUGHTS: Impacts of Corporate Crime, State Denial, and Labor Safety Neglect in Kalimantan and Sumatra Bogor, September 2, 2026 – The wildfires that have once again struck several regions in Kalimantan and Sumatra are not merely seasonal...
