The Transnational Palm Oil Labour Solidarity (TPOLS) Network urges all national governments and all companies to protect workers at all cost. The government and companies have to prioritize and ensure the protection of all working people’s health and livelihood...
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...
