Adapting in a carbon pool?

Routledge, August 2018, A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaption, Chapter III.8

Politicising climate change at Sumatra’s oil palm frontier

 ]onas Hein and Yvonne Kunz

 

Introduction

When visiting villages in Jambi province on the island of Sumatra in 2013, peasants told us that the Indonesian Government had recently proclaimed their forests to be ‘lungs of the earth’. This phrase is the local interpretation of a recent concept developed by economists and conservationists within the context ... read more

Posted on 01:58 AM in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), indigenous people, Indonesia, carbon, land rights, palm oil, rain forest destruction, Sumatra, transmigration, environment and climate, United Nations, Wasser

RSPO Principles and Criteria Draft (v2)

July 16, 2018

Dear RSPO Members and Consumer Goods Manufacturing Companies:

We are writing to you regarding the proposed revisions to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Principles & Criteria (P&C). The second draft was released recently for public consultation, ending on August 4, 2018.

The undersigned NGOs are concerned about existing deficiencies in the proposed requirements. Stronger reforms are needed to bring the P&C in line with the ‘no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation’ (NDPE) standards adopted by ... read more

Posted on 12:32 AM in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Open Letters, Papua, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: ArbeiterInnen, gender, Indonesia, human rights, Papua, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

(Deutsch) Simbar Wareh

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German version

Posted on 04:36 AM in Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: 1965, mining, Germany, women's rights, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, protest action, Religionsfreiheit, Umwelt, Wasser, economy and business, Zement, Zentraljava

(Deutsch) Stur und selbstbestimmt

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German version

Posted on 12:24 AM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: mining, women's rights, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, land rights, Recht auf Zugang zu sauberem Wasser, religion, Samin, Zement, Zentraljava

From Dreams to Nightmares

Tourism Watch, July 2018

https://www.tourism-watch.de/node/2669

Children as Victims of Sex Tourism in Bali

by Yuliati Umrah

Bali is a heaven for millions of tourists from other countries. Hotels, restaurants and other tourist facilities are mushrooming in the southern and central regions of Bali. Many Balinese women working in this sector also engage in sexual relations with foreign tourists. Where these relationships result in pregnancies, the women and children may eventually be left to their own devices. The Indonesian ... read more

Posted on 01:54 AM in Activities, Visitor Programmes, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Society & Religion, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Bali, women's rights, Indonesia, children's rights, NGO, tourism