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Illegal Deforestation Monitor
IDM tracks illegalities relating to conversion of forests for export-oriented agribusiness, the largest driver of global deforestation Continue reading
Does Indonesia’s storied anti-graft agency have a blind spot for corrupt land deals?
21.08.2018 Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission is perhaps the most trusted institution in a country plagued with graft. But the KPK, as it is known, has prosecuted only a handful of cases in the plantation sector
How corrupt elections fuel the sell-off of Indonesia’s natural resources
07.07.2018 Corrupt sell-offs by politicians, often to raise money for political campaigns, are driving deforestation and land rights abuses
Ghosts In The Machine: The land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge
18.04.2018 The land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge
It’s time to confront the collusion between the palm oil industry and politicians that is driving Indonesia’s deforestation crisis
18.04.2018 An investigation released today by Mongabay and Earthsight’s The Gecko Project reveals connections between global palm oil industry and corruption of Indonesian democracy
Asian governments backing deforestation in Gabon and Cameroon
22.03.2018 An extract from Earthsight's The Coming Storm report exposes the connections between the Singaporean and Chinese governments and two of the projects which have cleared the most forest to-date
Indonesian National Strategic Area loses thousands of hectares of forest in 2017
22.01.2018 Almost 7,000 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Leuser Ecosystem, in the western Indonesian province of Aceh, in 2017
Illegal plantations threaten Sumatran tiger with extinction
07.12.2017 Fewer than 600 of the species remain in the wild and expansion of illegal oil palm plantations into Indonesian national parks may lead to its extinction
