(Deutsch) Indonesien als Lieferant für Nickel – Fakten und Hintergründe zu Menschenrechts- und Umweltauswirkungen (Factsheet)
‘Biochar’, a new big threat to people, land, and ecosystems
08 April 2009
Keep ‘biochar’ and soils out of carbon trading Caution urged against proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation and soil reclamation
Adding charcoal (‘biochar’) to the soil has been proposed as a ‘climate change mitigation’ strategy and as a means of regenerating degraded land. Some even claim that this could sequester so much carbon that the Earth could return to pre-industrial carbon dioxide levels, i.e. that all the global warming caused ... read more
Posted in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Publications, Environment & Climate
Army’s involvement in the family planning program is reduplication disaster in the past
Jakarta, 16 March 2009
Statement on International Women’s Day
Indonesian National Army (it was ABRI, now TNI) will involve again the implementation of Family Planning Program held by National Family Planning Program Board (BKKBN). The return of TNI based on Memorandum of Understanding sign by General TNI Djoko Santoso, chief of BKKBN, dr. Sugiri Syarief, MPA, in the present of Coordinator minister of social welfare Aburizal Bakrie,in Auditorium BKKBN Jakarta, Februari 12 2009. According to General, TNI will ... read more
Posted in democracy, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Development, Indonesia, Publications, security sector, Society & Religion
(Bahasa Indonesia) Warga Eropa Tuntut Pembebasan Aktivis Lingkungan Jambi
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Indonesian version
Posted in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
(Deutsch) EU ausgetrickst:
Indonesien hebt Rodungsstopp von Torfmoorgebieten für Ölpalmplantagen auf
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German version
Posted in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
(Deutsch) Indonesien hebt Rodungsstopp von Torfmoorgebieten für Ölpalmplantagen auf
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German version
Posted in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
(Deutsch) EU ausgetrickst:
Indonesien hebt Rodungsstopp von Torfmoorgebieten für Ölpalmplantagen auf
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German version
Posted in Agro Fuels, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
(Bahasa Indonesia) Eropa Khawatir Ekspansi Perkebunan Sawit di Indonesia
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Indonesian version
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(Deutsch) Umweltschützer von Palmölmafia eingesperrt
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Indonesia: Criminalization of social leader for the benefit of oil palm corporation
World Rainforest Movement (WRM) Bulletin, Issue 139 – February 2009
As exposed in previous WRM Bulletin issues, criminalization is part of a strategy aimed at silencing any protest generally against the extractive activities of transnational corporations (see WRM Bulletin Nº 125). It is happening all over Southern countries. And it is happening right now in Indonesia, where it has victimized another fighter of social resistance to land-grabbing by palm oil-companies in the country.
The powerful agribusiness transnational group PT ... read more
Posted in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Letter to UN Security Council on Justice and Accountability
International Federation for East Timor (IFET), February 18, 2009
President
Security Council
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017
February 18, 2009
Your Excellency
We are writing on behalf of organizations long concerned with the justice process in Timor-Leste.
As you meet this week to discuss renewing the UN mission in Timor-Leste, we urge you to look at the unfulfilled UN pledges concerning human rights and accountability for serious human rights crimes committed in Timor-Leste between 1975 ... read more
Posted in Joint Open Letters, Justice, Human Rights, Human Rights, Indonesia, East Timor, Politics & Democracy, Publications, Security Sector, Transitional Justice
