Tag Archives: Koa

NGOs address MIFEE on World Food Day, and publish investigation about Wilmar

By admin | Published: October 18, 2013

The 16th of October was World Food Day, and two groupings of Indonesian and international organisations have used the opportunity to publish reports or press releases on MIFEE. The first of the two articles below, from Forest People’s Programme together with Sawit Watch and Pusaka, launches a report “A sweetness like unto death”, which is […]

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Forestry Ministry rejects Wilmar Group’s Application to Release Land from Forest Status

By admin | Published: July 23, 2013

July 2013, The Indonesian Forestry Ministry has announced its rejection of around eight companies’ applications to release forest land (see: http://lpp.dephut.go.id/media.php?module=izin&sub=listing&izin=4). Three of the companies are subsidiaries of Wilmar Group that are hoping to plant sugar cane: PT Anugerah Rejeki Nusantara (41,421 ha) in Merauke Regency, and PT Royal Agro Sejahtera (39,593 ha) and PT […]

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The People of Baad and Koa villages Reject PT Anugrah Rejeki Nusantara (Wilmar)

By admin | Published: November 2, 2012

[Note to readers in Australia and New Zealand: Wilmar International, the subject of the article below now supplies the majority of the sugar sold in Australia under the brand name CSR sugar and in New Zealand as Chelsea Sugar. The Singapore-based multinational bought the CSR company (renamed Sucrogen) in 2010, at around the same time […]

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