May 14, 2012
“Now is the time for action not words here in Tripa. To destroy one of the last great areas of peat swamp forest in Sumatra is an act of criminal vandalism.” That was written in 2008, but if anything, it’s even more relevant today than it was then.
While the destruction of the [...]
May 3, 2012
Indonesia may have lost five million hectares of forest in the 12 months since the President announced a two year moratorium on new forest concessions, according to Greenpeace.
The Jakarta Globe reports that at a press conference yesterday, Kiki Taufik, a geographical information specialist with Greenpeace Indonesia, said that the five million hectares [...]
April 30, 2012
The Harapan Rainforest Project has featured several times on REDD-Monitor. Since COP14 in Poznań, La Via Campesina has criticised the Harapan project because of the impacts of the project on local farmers.
On 27 March 2012, REDD-Monitor interviewed Tejo Pramono of La Via Campesina, and Elisha Kartini of SPI, the Indonesian Farmers Union. [...]
April 29, 2012
Over the past few weeks, REDD-Monitor has posted a series of interviews with ten organisations involved in REDD in Indonesia. This post is a brief overview with some of the highlights from the interviews.
First a note about the interview process. The purpose of the interviews was not to catch people out, but [...]
April 24, 2012
This film, produced by WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia), starts with a villager in Aceh, Indonesia, explaining carbon trading. “I don’t really understand,” he says, “but I think it’s ‘cold air’ that may be sold to other countries.”
Later on in the film, we find out that Fauna and Flora International told [...]
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April 18, 2012
Interview with Frank Momberg, Fauna and Flora International, in Jakarta, March 2012.
REDD-Monitor: Please start with some background about FFI and about FFI’s involvement in Indonesia.
Frank Momberg: FFI is the world’s oldest conservation organization, founded in 1903. It is based in the United Kingdom and works in 40 countries worldwide. We’ve been [...]
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April 16, 2012
Interview with Bernadinus Steni, HuMa (Perkumpulan untuk Permbaharuan Hukum Berbasis Masyarakat dan Ekologis – Association for Community Based and Ecological Law Reform), Jakarta, April 2012.
REDD-Monitor: Please start with some background about HuMa and the role the organisation plays in Indonesia.
Bernadinus Steni: HuMa is a legal-based organisation working on human rights and [...]
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April 13, 2012
Interview with Frances Seymour, CIFOR, at CIFOR’s office, Bogor, March 2012. (The response to one question from Lou Verchot was by email.)
REDD-Monitor: Could you provide a bit of background about CIFOR and the role that the organisation plays in the REDD discussion in Indonesia.
Frances Seymour: CIFOR is an international organisation and [...]
April 9, 2012
Interview with Bustar Maitar, Head of Forest Campaign, Greenpeace Global Forest Network Indonesia, and Yuyun Indradi, Political Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia – Indonesia, at Greenpeace’s office, Jakarta, March 2012.
REDD-Monitor: Please give some background about Greenpeace internationally and in Indonesia, relating to the organisation’s work on forests.
Bustar Maitar: Greenpeace is an [...]
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April 6, 2012
On 8 March 2012, the World Bank announced that the Draft Indonesia Forest Investment Plan was posted on the Ministry of Forestry’s website. The 114-page document was posted in English, with a comment period of “a little over two weeks”.
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