FBTPI union members investigate the palm oil supply chainJakarta, November 24, 2019 – Federasi Buruh Transportasi Pelabuhan Indonesia (FBTPI - Federation of Transportation and Dock Workers Union) held a discussion to investigate and map the palm oil supply chain...
Palm Oil Plantation Nursery AreaPresidential Instruction number 6 of 2019 on the management of a sustainable palm oil industry for 2019-2024, recently signed by President Joko Widodo, has failed to address the root problems in the industry, including the problems...
Seminar on Forest and Land Fire in Indonesia, in University of Indonesia (11/26)Jakarta, November 26, 2019 – Serikat Perempuan Indonesia (Indonesian Women’s Union) held a seminar on Forest Fire and Climate Justice. The discussion was facilitated by Aliansi Gerakan...
Fires from land and forest fires across Indonesia in 2019 have pumped at least 708 million tones of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — almost double the emissions from the fires that swept through the Brazilian Amazon this year.The fires were one of the most...
The stateless people in #Sabah, #Malaysia are denied access to schools, jobs, and healthcare, and their village is facing demolition. They have found advocates in the youth movement #BorneoKomrad.⠀ Video: https://buff.ly/2XQxq7E⠀ ⠀ #palmoillaboursolidarity⠀ ⠀...
*SIGN THE PETITION TO SUPPORT REFUGEES RIGHT TO WORK IN MALAYSIA* https://ift.tt/2QVRVyC In mid-December, the Malaysian Government will come to a decision on establishing work rights for refugees in Malaysia.Should the final decision be unfavourable and in neglect of...
In a report entitled A Toxic Mix of Abuses on Congo's Oil Palm Plantations, HRW said it had interviewed more than 40 workers and two-thirds of them "told us that they had become impotent since they started the job".⠀ ⠀Impotence - along with shortness of breath,...
These are five global producers of palm oil in 2019 (in 1000 MT): ⠀1. Indonesia (43,000);2. Malaysia (21,200);3. Thailand (3,000);4. (Colombia 1,680);5. Nigeria (1,015). ⠀ ⠀Other countries (in ranking): Guatemala, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, Honduras, Brazil, Côte...
What could a socially and ecologically just palm oil industry look like? Worker load fresh fruit bunches into a truck, North Sumatra, Indonesia © RAN/OPPUK/Nanang Sujana. Oliver Pye, Fitri Arianti, Rizal Assalam, Michaela Haug, Janina Puder[i] The palm oil...
Photo: View on border area between Sebatik island and Nunukan island in North Kalimantan. Documentation: TPOLS (2020) Press Statement 30 August 2021 In Sabah, Malaysia, thousands of migrant workers and their families continued to live in fear of raids. They hide in...
Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian August marks a deadly month of killings in the Philippines under the Duterte administration. Four years ago, on August 16, 2017, a team of cops conducting an anti-drug operation in a poor neighborhood in Caloocan City shot...
Picture: palm oil harvesters cutting down fruit bunch. Credit: RAN/OPPUK/Nanang Sujana, Press Release Jakarta, August 8th 2021, Transnational Palm Oil Labour Solidarity (TPOLS) Transnational Palm Oil Labour Solidarity sees that labor conditions have worsened among...
Photo: Women maintanance workers spread fertilizer on one plantation in North Sumatra. Credit; RAN/ OPPUK/ Nanang Sujana. Report on Crisis in Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic It has been more than a year since the...
