(Deutsch) Angesagt – aus der Arbeit von Watch Indonesia!

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Posted on 08:57 PM in Agro Fuels, Activities, History & Overview, Human Development, Human Rights, Human Rights, Indonesia, Recent Activities, Land & Indigenous Rights, East Timor, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Society & Religion, Transitional Justice, Environment & Climate, SUARA magazine
Tags: labour, poverty, biodiversity, Government of Germany, Germany, export credit agency (ECA), history and overview, Indonesia, José Ramos-Horta, land rights, human rights, East Timor, palm oil, pulp and paper, plantations, rain forest destruction, religion, Sumatra, environment and climate, United Nations, arms trade

Open Letter to Financial Institutions

06 November 2012

Dear Sir/Madam,

with this letter the 60 undersigned non-governmental organisations (NGOs) wish to ask you to carefully screen any pulp industry investment projects related to Indonesia, such as new mills, particularly those of companies associated with the Sinar Mas Group, notably Asia Pulp & Paper (APP).

Our concern is the environmental and social consequences of the massive destruction of natural forests that can be shown to be linked to past and current over-capacity in pulp milling plants in Indonesia. ... read more

Posted on 03:57 AM in Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: Indonesia, pulp and paper, rain forest destruction, Sumatra, environment and climate

Open letter to the Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the occasion of his visit to the United Kingdom

London, 31st of October 2012

Conservation of the rainforest

Dear President Yudhoyono,

On the occasion of your visit to Europe, we write this open letter appealing to you to support the conservation of the rainforest with all your power and to protect the inhabitants of forested lands as well as their rights.

Industrial logging, the establishment of palm-oil plantations, and the planting of fast-growing species of trees such as acacia for the wood and paper industries are the major causes of rainforest ... read more

Posted on 07:26 AM in Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: indigenous people, Indonesia, carbon, land rights, palm oil, pulp and paper, plantations, rain forest destruction, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Angesagt – aus der Arbeit von Watch Indonesia!

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Posted on 08:26 PM in Activities, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia, Recent Activities, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Papua, Publications, Environment & Climate, SUARA magazine
Tags: 1965, labour, mining, dictator Suharto, Indonesia, human rights, Papua, religion, state & nation building, Sukarno, environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) Werte, Wachstum, Weltordnung

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Posted on 12:33 AM in Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Government of Germany, Germany, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, religion, environment and climate, USA

(Deutsch) Indonesien – Traumziel für Investoren?

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Posted on 02:10 PM in Agro Fuels, democracy, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Development, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), democracy, Indonesia, land rights, palm oil, political parties, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) Flammenmeer im Regenwald

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Posted on 06:19 PM in democracy, Disasters, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Indonesia, Judiciary & Administration, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: democracy, Indonesia, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, administration, economy and business

(Deutsch) Palmöl: „vermischt mit dem Blut von Mutter Erde“

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Posted on 12:49 AM in Agro Fuels, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: biodiversity, Germany, Indonesia, corruption, land rights, human rights, military, palm oil, plantations, rain forest destruction, security sector, environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) Mit Lücken zertifiziert

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Posted on 08:08 AM in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), Germany, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, palm oil, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), environment and climate, economy and business, certification

(Deutsch) Unilever schert sich nicht um Palmöl-Opfer

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Posted on 12:32 AM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: Germany, indigenous people, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, palm oil, plantations, Sumatra, environment and climate, forced eviction, economy and business