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...
Sabah, Malaysia, is one of the hardest hits by Covid-19 pandemic, where migrant workers in palm oil plantations are among the most impacted. As per 24 April 2020, cases of Covid-19 infection in Tawau district is the highest in Sabah, with 81 confirmed cases out of 309...
Pemerintah mengadakan program 'Rehiring' tiga tahun lalu untuk memberikan kesempatan pekerja migran mendapatkan dokumen resmi. Sumber foto: Bernama, diambil dari Free Malaysia TodayPETALING JAYA: Organisasi pengusung hak asasi manusia di Malaysia Tenaganita...
The government launched a ‘Rehiring Programme’ three years ago to legalise undocumented migrant workers. (Bernama pic)PETALING JAYA: A migrant rights body has asked the government where the millions of ringgit collected in 2016 from foreign workers who were not issued...
Dearah Perbatasan Indonesia-Malaysia Jalur Perdagangan Manusia. Foto: Google, 2019KOMPAS.com - Gubernur Nusa Tenggara Timur ( NTT) Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat, langsung mengumumkan moratorium pengiriman tenaga kerja dari wilayahnya ke luar negeri, beberapa saat setelah...
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,...
It has been six months since we distributed the postcard at the International Just Transition Conference in November 2023, now this postcard is ready to be delivered to you through this website. These postcards will bring you to TPOLS research findings on safety and...
Since the colonial era, health has been an integral part of labor control, as seen on palm oil plantations. Today, these agri-capitalist factories, operating in multinational contexts, continue to benefit from this mechanism of control, degrading workers’ bodies...
In September last year, I attended a group discussion with workers organised by a branch of SERBUK (People’s Labour Union) at a palm oil plantation company in the Sambas Regency of West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. It was the first gathering of union members...
The issue of heavily polluted water in palm oil plantation zones has severely affected local families and workers. Despite water issues appearing like a mundane problem, the communities near these plantations suffer from diseases caused by toxic rivers. According to...
