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...
Plantation workers held a strike to protest the company's arbitrary policy. Source: KBS, 2020The Palm Oil Labor Coalition:Jakarta 2 June 2020, a number of workers at PT Suryabumi Tunggal Perkasa-Eagle High Plantation Group in South Kalimantan went on strike to...
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...
Exploitative working conditions in the oil palm plantations’ industry in Indonesia are persistent and the main victims are mostly women. Although this situation is often overlooked, the production process of the world’s largest producer of palm oil is strongly...
TPOLS – Kamis sore, 5 Desember 2019, hari menjelang gelap, sekitar pukul 18.00 WITA, barak pekerja kebun Bangkirai milik PT. Jaya Mandiri Sukses di Desa Prian Kec. Muara Muntai, Kab. Kutai Kartanegara, Kalimantan Timur seketika heboh dengan adanya kabar duka...
Photo: Palm Oil Harvest Workers. Source: Sawit WatchPalm oil watchdog Sawit Watch is airing concerns that a plan by the Ministry of Manpower to revise the Law on Manpower could lead to the legitimation of unfair manpower practices.“The revision of the Law on Manpower...
Estate Society Support Committee demanding for Housing Law. Source: ESSCKUALA LUMPUR: A group of estate workers held a peaceful demonstration outside the Parliament building today to urge the government to enact an estate housing law to guarantee the workers permanent...
Komite Pendukung Masyarakat Perkebunan menuntut Undang-Undang Perumahan bagi pekerja Kebun. Sumber: KPMPKUALA LUMPUR: Sekelompok pekerja kebun melakukan aksi damai di luar gedung Parlemen Malaysia (4/12) untuk mendesak pemerintah Malaysia memberlakukan undang-undang...
Term of Reference Background The palm oil industry is booming for several reasons, especially the need for investment to increase economic growth. With the paradigm of economic growth, the government sees that the palm oil industry is able to absorb labor and generate...
Die Palmölindustrie trägt wesentlich zur Klimaerwärmung und zum Artensterben bei. Die ständige Expansion immer neuer Monokulturen in Indonesien, Malaysia und zunehmend auch in Afrika und Lateinamerika zerstört den Regenwald. Die dafür angelegten Waldbrände sind eine...
A Just Transition perspective would integrate ecological sustainability and social justice. Photo: Worker’s helmet and fresh fruit bunch, North Sumatra, Indonesia © RAN/OPPUK/Nanang Sujana. Steps towards a Labour Perspective on Just Transition We have seen how...
The palm oil industry is plagued by land conflicts. Photo: Indigenous farmers block a road to a palm oil plantation and ritually spill pig’s blood in West Kalimantan, Indonesia © Irendra Radjawali Mosaic Landscapes as a Transformative Vision for the Palm Oil Industry...
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...
