Oil palm expansion threatens the environment, harms communities | Human Rights Watch

Oil Palm Expansion Risks Environment, Harms Communities

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(Jakarta, June 3, 2021) - The damage an oil palm plantation in western Kalimantan, Indonesia is causing to surrounding communities and the environment shows the government's failure to enforce its own policies and laws, Human Rights Watch said in a release Report report today. Government protection of residents and land has not improved, and in fact new laws could ease the abuses.

The 71-page report "Why Our Land": Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia Risks Peatlands and Livelihoods "examines the behavior of PT Sintang Raya, a subsidiary of the South Korean Deasang Corporation, in three tidal villages in West Kalimantan Province. Human Rights Watch found that the company built and expanded its plantations in bog, which helps fight climate change, without real consultation with local residents and without adequate compensation for the loss of their farmland or livelihood. Police harassed, intimidated and prosecuted villagers who resisted or protested.

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