Concerns regarding the United Fiber System pulpmill and wood chip mill in Indonesian Borneo (South Kalimantan)

common NGO letter, 21 November 2005

To:
Raiffeisen Zentralbank
z.H. Gen.Dir. Dr. Walter Rothensteiner
Am Stadtpark 9
A-1030 Wien

walter.rothensteiner@rzb.at
andreas.ecker@rzb.at

To:
Andritz AG
z.H. CEO Dr. Wolfgang Leitner
Stattegger Straße 18
A-8045 Graz

wolfgang.leitner@andritz.com
michael.buchbauer@andritz.com

Re: Concerns regarding the United Fiber System pulpmill and wood chip mill in Indonesian Borneo (South Kalimantan)

Dear Mr. Leitner and Mr. Rothensteiner,

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the involvement of your respective companies in the proposed construction of a huge pulp mill and of ... read more

Posted on 01:31 AM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, pulp and paper, plantations, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

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Die Katastrophe von Kutacane

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Tags: Aceh, illegal logging, Indonesia, disasters, corruption, pulp and paper, rain forest destruction, tsunami

1965 – one of the darkest chapters in Indonesian history

29 October 2005

Südostasien Informationsstelle e.V. Watch Indonesia! e.V.

Joint statement on the occasion

of the commemoration ceremony

„40 years after the genocideof 1965 in Indonesia“

Saturday the 29th October 2005

in the “Asienhaus Essen”

 

Coming to terms with the past a necessary precondition for democracy

Between 1965 and 1967, in the course of Suharto seizing power, approximately 1 million people were killed in Indonesia. The victims were real and alleged members of the ... read more

Posted on 06:39 AM in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Rights, Transitional Justice
Tags: 1965, history and overview, Indonesia, justice, human rights, PKI, dealing with the past

(Deutsch) Kein Urwald in unsere Schulhefte!

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Tags: Indonesia, plantations, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

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(Deutsch) Bau der Zellstofffabrik nochmal überdenken!

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Tags: Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, land rights, pulp and paper, plantations, rain forest destruction, government, environment and climate

Palm oil plantations for biofuel production threaten tropical rainforest in Kalimantan

Open Letter

October 13, 2005

Francois Lamoureux Director-General Directorate-General Energy and Transport European Commission Dear. Mr. Lamoureux,

I am writing to express my concern about using palm oil and soya biomass as biofuels. To fulfill the demand for biofuel, large areas of tropical rainforests are currently already converted into plantations, with the effect, that lowland rainforest, especially in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, are cut down. Considering geological and ecological conditions in Borneo, in only a few years Borneo will become a ... read more

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Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), European Union (EU), Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, palm oil, rain forest destruction