The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces.
REA Holdings, a British-based firm that owns three palm oil mills in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, installed methane capture at two of its mills in 2012, with plans currently being drawn ...
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The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has been researching the carbon footprint and opportunity costs associated with oil palm plantations in nine provinces on the islands of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, Indonesia. Key findings to date
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According to research by WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) West Kalimantan, 3.5 million hectares of land has been earmarked for oil palm plantation development in West Kalimantan (around 24% of the province's total land area) and two million ha of plantations are planned close to the border between East and West Kalimantan. Sixty-six ...
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The total development costs for the project stands at USD 50 million and will be absorbed for three year planting period. Upon the completion of the first project, the initiators have prepared other locations for the same forestry project. These include some forestry concessions in West Kalimantan and Sumatra. Target market for forestry ...
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ILRF finds labor trafficking and false promises at a “sustainable” palm oil plantation. About the Investigation. In November 2012, our local field researchers conducted an investigation of the RSPO certified PT Kerry Sawit Indonesia (PT KSI) plantation in remote Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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But palm oil's appeal comes with significant costs. Oil palm plantations often replace tropical forests, killing endangered species, uprooting local communities, and contributing to the release of climate-warming gases. Due mostly to oil palm production, Indonesia emits more greenhouse gases than any country besides China and the United States.
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Eco-Business Special Report How a palm oil company is fighting slash and burn culture A year and a half after the worst bout of haze ever to hit Southeast Asia, Eco-Business investigates how the world’s second largest palm oil company is living up to a promise to stop the burning of peat forests to make way for plantations.
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The following is the established format for referencing this article: Obidzinski, K., R. Andriani, H. Komarudin, and A. Andrianto. 2012. Environmental and social impacts of oil palm plantations and their implications for biofuel production in Indonesia.
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28-5-2015· Deforestation and oil palm expansion in Central Kalimantan province are among the highest in Indonesia. This study examines the physical and monetary impacts of oil palm expansion in Central Kalimantan up to 2025 under three policy scenarios. Our modelling
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4-5-2017· Palm oil is one of the world's most produced and consumed oils. This cheap, production-efficient and highly stable oil is used in a wide variety of food, cosmetic and hygiene products, and can be used as source for bio-fuel or biodiesel. Most palm oil is produced in Asia, Africa and South America
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6-3-2020· The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan
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Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world's biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world's supply. In 2016, Indonesia produced over 34.5 million tons of palm oil, and exported nearly 73% of it. Oil palm
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16-9-2010· 101 East exposes how companies and the government are turning a blind eye to the human cost of palm oil production. Indonesia is the world's largest producer of palm oil. From chocolate and ice
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One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the HoB and Kalimantan is the growth of oil palm plantations in response to global demand for palm oil, the most important tropical vegetable oil in the global oils and fats industry. Within Indonesia, oil palm
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Farmers are clearing land the fastest way they know how to cash in on demand for palm oil, Kalimantan, Indonesia to reduce oil import costs.
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6 THE COST OF CONFLICT IN OIL PALM IN INDONESIA A note on scope: We acknowledge that costs brought on by social conicts in the palm oil sector burden not only the palm oil companies, but also local government, and, most notably, the communities or individuals involved in the conict. As a proportion of total budgets and
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ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF PALM OIL EXPANSION IN INDONESIA Given that global land area for agriculture is limited (Tilman et al., 2001), the rapid expansion of the oil palm industry comes at the expense of other cropland, secondary forest, and native tropical forest. Most (96%) of palm oil production occurs on the island
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Written by Mark Barthel, Steve Jennings, Will Schreiber, Richard Sheane and Sam Royston (3Keel LLP) and James Fry, Yu Leng Khor, Julian McGill (LMC International Ltd. (February 2025) Study on the environmental impact
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Palm oil is a commodity most of us know little about, yet is virtually ubiquitous in our daily consumption. It is a key ingredient of a host of store staples like cosmetics, soaps and snack foods. This omnipresent vegetable oil is harvested on plantations mostly in Indonesia and Malaysia by workers who remain hidden from the public eye.
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Average yields of oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan were around 13% lower than Indonesia-wide yield averages and 23% lower than those in Malaysia. While this is in part driven by differences in the age of plantations, there remains significant potential to improve average yields, particularly for smallholder farmers.
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Deforestation and oil palm expansion in Central Kalimantan province are among the highest in Indonesia. This study examines the physical and monetary impacts of oil palm expansion in Central Kalimantan up to 2025 under three policy scenarios.
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Palm oil production in 2017 increased by 18 percent from the previous year, thanks to weather patterns that were conducive to high productivity, according to the Indonesian Palm Oil Producers
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the development of palm oil plantation and its related infrastructure in Sumatera is relatively more advanced than in other parts of Indonesia. In recent years, Kalimantan has become a feasible alternative as it offers a large potential land bank for developing palm oil plantation.
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palm oil over the past few decades has resulted in rapid expansion in the production of palm oil around the world. Lead by the potential economic benefits from this increase in palm oil demand, palm oil plantations, in particular in tropical areas where the palm tree grows such as Indonesia, have also been expanding and attracting investors
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Get PriceAt the invitation of President Joko Widodo, Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will pay a state visit to the Republic of Indonesia from Tuesday 10 March to Friday 13 March 2020. They will visit Jakarta and Yogjakarta on the island of Java as well as the islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra.
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Indonesia’s rich list stacked with palm oil billionaires by Mongabay on 26 December 2016 Billionaires aren’t the only ones who have profited from Indonesia’s palm oil industry.
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INDONESIA World’s Largest Crude Palm Oil (CPO) Producer In 2006 INDONESIA became the world’s largest crude palm oil (CPO) producer. It was the much increased CPO production in higher fresh fruit bunches yield and oil extraction rates that set Indonesia far ahead from Malaysia.
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The Governments of Indonesia and Central Kalimantan have ambitious targets to both grow the palm oil sector and improve environmental quality by reducing deforestation, and smallholder farmers are an important part of the picture. We find that, as the plantation area managed by smallholder farmers grows, there are opportunities to improve productivity and farmer benefits within all models of
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Energy in Indonesia describes energy and electricity production, consumption, import and export in Indonesia.In 2009 Indonesia produced oil, coal, natural gas and palm oil, utilised also as energy raw material in 2010.Renewable energy potential in Indonesia is high: solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy. Tropical rain forests and peat land areas have extensive coal storage.
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Jakarta, Indonesia Palm oil suppliers to the world’s largest brands, including Unilever, Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive and Mondelez, have destroyed an area of rainforest almost twice the size of Singapore in less than three years, according to a new investigation by Greenpeace International. [1] Greenpeace International assessed deforestation by 25 major palm oil producers and found that:
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According to Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) chairman Joko Supriyono, about 50 million Indonesians depend in their everyday lives on palm oil and its derivatives, be it directly or indirectly, through multiplier effects the sector has created. Palm oil is a strategic commodity for Indonesia’s economic development.
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How the world got hooked on palm oil Orangutans rescued near a palm oil plantation in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photograph: Vier Pfoten/Four Paws/Rex
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STUDY OF REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION FOR CPO IN CENTRAL dan Klaster Industri Indonesia, STIM YKPN 2011, Modeling Freight Transportation for Crude Palm Oil in Central Kalimantan,
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the world’s palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. In Indonesia, palm oil plantations now cover more than 10.8 million hectares, an area 2.5 times the size of Switzerland, and continue to expand at a rate of 630,000 hectares per year.2 This rapid growth of palm oil comes at a high cost. Palm oil expansion has become the leading cause of both
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