Samstag, 2. Mai 2009
Montag, 27. April 2009
McPlanet: Agroenergie schürt Konflikte
Agroenergie schürt Konflikte
das Beispiel Indonesien
McPlanet-Workshop mit Yan Christian Warinussy aus Papua, Indonesien
Fabian Junge, Stefanie Hess und Marianne Klute, Watch Indonesia!
am 26. April 2009
1. Monolog: RUSDI, gespielt von Eneko Sanz
2. Agroenergie schürt Konflikte; Präsentation von Stefanie Hess
3. Workshop-Runde: Welche Konflikte stecken in Agroenergie? mit Fabian Junge
4. Konflikte um die Ausbeutung der Naturressourcen in Papua; mit Rechtsanwalt Yan Christian Warinussy aus Manokwari, Westpapua
5. Fragerunde und Diskussion
6. Handlungsmöglichkeiten
Indonesien ist der weltgrößte Produzent von Palmöl. Für den boomenden Agroenergiemarkt werden immer mehr Flächen erschlossen: Die letzten Regen- und Torfwälder werden abgeholzt und landwirtschaftlich genutzte Böden in Megaplantagen „umgewandelt“. Mit allen Mitteln verschaffen sich transnationale Konzerne den Zugang zu Land.
In dem Watch Indonesia!-Workshop „Agroenergie schürt Konflikte: Das Beispiel Indonesien“ ging es um die mit Agroenergie verbundenen Konfliktpotentiale in Indonesien und unsere Handlungsmöglichkeiten.
http://www.watchindonesia.org/Agroenergie%20schuert%20Konflikte%20_%20McPlanet%20Workshop.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/mastr/agroenergie-schrt-konflikte-watch-indonesia
das Beispiel Indonesien
McPlanet-Workshop mit Yan Christian Warinussy aus Papua, Indonesien
Fabian Junge, Stefanie Hess und Marianne Klute, Watch Indonesia!
am 26. April 2009
1. Monolog: RUSDI, gespielt von Eneko Sanz
2. Agroenergie schürt Konflikte; Präsentation von Stefanie Hess
3. Workshop-Runde: Welche Konflikte stecken in Agroenergie? mit Fabian Junge
4. Konflikte um die Ausbeutung der Naturressourcen in Papua; mit Rechtsanwalt Yan Christian Warinussy aus Manokwari, Westpapua
5. Fragerunde und Diskussion
6. Handlungsmöglichkeiten
Indonesien ist der weltgrößte Produzent von Palmöl. Für den boomenden Agroenergiemarkt werden immer mehr Flächen erschlossen: Die letzten Regen- und Torfwälder werden abgeholzt und landwirtschaftlich genutzte Böden in Megaplantagen „umgewandelt“. Mit allen Mitteln verschaffen sich transnationale Konzerne den Zugang zu Land.
In dem Watch Indonesia!-Workshop „Agroenergie schürt Konflikte: Das Beispiel Indonesien“ ging es um die mit Agroenergie verbundenen Konfliktpotentiale in Indonesien und unsere Handlungsmöglichkeiten.
http://www.watchindonesia.org/Agroenergie%20schuert%20Konflikte%20_%20McPlanet%20Workshop.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/mastr/agroenergie-schrt-konflikte-watch-indonesia
Montag, 5. Januar 2009
Aerial bombardment of peasants in Sumatran village
Press releases by Watch Indonesia! and WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia)
Aerial bombardment of peasants in Sumatran village
Berlin, 23rd December 2008:
On Thursday, 18th December, hundreds of police and paramilitaries attacked the Sumatran village Suluk Bongkal in Riau Province with tear gas and guns. A helicopter dropped incendiary devices on the village, with eye witnesses alleging that napalm was used. Hundreds of houses immediately went up in flames. Two young children were killed and many people were injured. Most of the villagers have fled into the forest. Others have been arrested. Two days later, a helicopter flew at low height over the tents of homeless villagers and bombarded them with stones.
The news sounded so unbelievable that Watch Indonesia! was initially hesitant to disseminate them, however the information has now been confirmed, except that the type of bombs dropped still has to be verified. The environmental organisation WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) has identified the attack on poor villagers as the result of struggles over raw materials and land, which are so common in Indonesia. In this case, the conflict was over paper and in particular a pulp and paper plantation by PT Arara Abadi, a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) which, in turn is a subsidiary of the Indonesian company Sinar Mas. PT Arara Abadi/APP used the police and hired paramilitaries in order to evict villagers with pure force. The Indonesian Human Rights Commission has now taken on the case.
Watch Indonesia! Protests against the attack on Suluk Bongkal and the extremely brutal violence against the civilian population. We demand an immediate investigation of this new human rights abuse, compensation for the local population and a guarantee of their safety and rights, as well as punishment of those responsible for the violence. We demand that European governments and companies examine their links to companies such as Sinar Mas which are responsible for human rights abuses. Europe’s excessive consumption bears some of the responsibility for the growing use of violence in land conflicts over paper, palm oil, gold and other raw materials. Sumatra is not the only place where people are being violently evicted for mass production of paper.
Contact: Marianne Klute, watchindonesia@snafu.de, klute@snafu.de
WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia): End the violence on pulp and paper plantations.
Jakarta, 22nd December 2008
Once more, state forces have used violence against people in the conflict over natural resources. The settlement of Suluk Bongkal, Beringin, in the district of Bengkali, Riau Province, Sumatra has been attacked by security forces. Two toddlers have been killed. 400 villagers have fled into the mountains and 58 people remain in the village. They are under extreme psychological pressure. On Thursday, 18th December 2008, mobile police brigades in Riau, together with ordinary police officers and 500 paramilitaries stormed the settlement of Suluk Bongkal in order to evict the population. The background is the claim which the plantation company PT Arara Abadi is making on the land, and the company’s support by sectors of the government.
“WALHI is strongly opposed to any use of state violence against the population for the purpose of defending industry interests” says Berry Nahidan Forgan, director of WALHI. “This police and paramilitary action constitutes a violation of human rights”, he states.
This is not the first incident in the conflict between PT Arara Abadi and the population. The conflict began in 1984, when PT Arara Abadi destroyed 200 graves of the indigenous Sakai people. Since since, 26 conflicts have been registered. The main cause is land rights conflicts. People are losing the right to their land, without receiving fair and timely compensation. This is escalating conflicts and violence between PT Arara Abadi and the local population.
Arara Abadi, a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group, a company owned by Eka Tjipta Wijaya, to which Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) also belongs, supply wood to the pulp and paper factory Indah Kiat. Arara Abadi operates the largest pulp and paper tree plantation in Indonesia. In Riau alone, Arara Abadi has concessions over more than 350,000 hectares. Most of those tree plantations were set up in contravention of Indonesian legislation: Forestry legislation has been ignored, monocultures have been established on steep slopes which are at an angle of more than 30°, in water catchment areas, in areas with high biodiversity and on land belonging to local communities.
State security forces, which are supposed to serve the population, have committed a crime against human rights with their attack on the population of Suluk Bongkal. There are strong indications that the violence was planned: Police and paramilitaries even used a special incendiary bomb in order to burn the village, they used fire arms and tear gas and a helicopter which appears to belong to PT Arara Abadi.
„WALHI demands that the Indonesian government withdraws the licence from PT Arara Abadi, ends the violence against people and all measures to isolate the village, releases those who have been detained and returns all property stolen from the people“ says Berry Nahdian Forquan. “WALHI also demands strong measures against those responsible for the violence.”
WALHI believes that the violence in Suluk Bongkal, Bengkalis-Riau reflects the way in which natural resources are being treated in Indonesia, in a way which creates ever more conflicts and removes essential resources from the Indonesian population. People are becoming ever poorer as they lose access to and control of the country’s natural riches. The government must immediately address agrarian conflicts and conflicts over natural resources. The people must be given back sovereignty over the resources on which their livelihoods depend. The government must restructure the pulp and paper industry as well as reviewing licenses for large-scale tree monoculture.
Contact: Ade Fadli (adefadli@walhi.or.id)
Aerial bombardment of peasants in Sumatran village
Berlin, 23rd December 2008:
On Thursday, 18th December, hundreds of police and paramilitaries attacked the Sumatran village Suluk Bongkal in Riau Province with tear gas and guns. A helicopter dropped incendiary devices on the village, with eye witnesses alleging that napalm was used. Hundreds of houses immediately went up in flames. Two young children were killed and many people were injured. Most of the villagers have fled into the forest. Others have been arrested. Two days later, a helicopter flew at low height over the tents of homeless villagers and bombarded them with stones.
The news sounded so unbelievable that Watch Indonesia! was initially hesitant to disseminate them, however the information has now been confirmed, except that the type of bombs dropped still has to be verified. The environmental organisation WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) has identified the attack on poor villagers as the result of struggles over raw materials and land, which are so common in Indonesia. In this case, the conflict was over paper and in particular a pulp and paper plantation by PT Arara Abadi, a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) which, in turn is a subsidiary of the Indonesian company Sinar Mas. PT Arara Abadi/APP used the police and hired paramilitaries in order to evict villagers with pure force. The Indonesian Human Rights Commission has now taken on the case.
Watch Indonesia! Protests against the attack on Suluk Bongkal and the extremely brutal violence against the civilian population. We demand an immediate investigation of this new human rights abuse, compensation for the local population and a guarantee of their safety and rights, as well as punishment of those responsible for the violence. We demand that European governments and companies examine their links to companies such as Sinar Mas which are responsible for human rights abuses. Europe’s excessive consumption bears some of the responsibility for the growing use of violence in land conflicts over paper, palm oil, gold and other raw materials. Sumatra is not the only place where people are being violently evicted for mass production of paper.
Contact: Marianne Klute, watchindonesia@snafu.de, klute@snafu.de
WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia): End the violence on pulp and paper plantations.
Jakarta, 22nd December 2008
Once more, state forces have used violence against people in the conflict over natural resources. The settlement of Suluk Bongkal, Beringin, in the district of Bengkali, Riau Province, Sumatra has been attacked by security forces. Two toddlers have been killed. 400 villagers have fled into the mountains and 58 people remain in the village. They are under extreme psychological pressure. On Thursday, 18th December 2008, mobile police brigades in Riau, together with ordinary police officers and 500 paramilitaries stormed the settlement of Suluk Bongkal in order to evict the population. The background is the claim which the plantation company PT Arara Abadi is making on the land, and the company’s support by sectors of the government.
“WALHI is strongly opposed to any use of state violence against the population for the purpose of defending industry interests” says Berry Nahidan Forgan, director of WALHI. “This police and paramilitary action constitutes a violation of human rights”, he states.
This is not the first incident in the conflict between PT Arara Abadi and the population. The conflict began in 1984, when PT Arara Abadi destroyed 200 graves of the indigenous Sakai people. Since since, 26 conflicts have been registered. The main cause is land rights conflicts. People are losing the right to their land, without receiving fair and timely compensation. This is escalating conflicts and violence between PT Arara Abadi and the local population.
Arara Abadi, a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group, a company owned by Eka Tjipta Wijaya, to which Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) also belongs, supply wood to the pulp and paper factory Indah Kiat. Arara Abadi operates the largest pulp and paper tree plantation in Indonesia. In Riau alone, Arara Abadi has concessions over more than 350,000 hectares. Most of those tree plantations were set up in contravention of Indonesian legislation: Forestry legislation has been ignored, monocultures have been established on steep slopes which are at an angle of more than 30°, in water catchment areas, in areas with high biodiversity and on land belonging to local communities.
State security forces, which are supposed to serve the population, have committed a crime against human rights with their attack on the population of Suluk Bongkal. There are strong indications that the violence was planned: Police and paramilitaries even used a special incendiary bomb in order to burn the village, they used fire arms and tear gas and a helicopter which appears to belong to PT Arara Abadi.
„WALHI demands that the Indonesian government withdraws the licence from PT Arara Abadi, ends the violence against people and all measures to isolate the village, releases those who have been detained and returns all property stolen from the people“ says Berry Nahdian Forquan. “WALHI also demands strong measures against those responsible for the violence.”
WALHI believes that the violence in Suluk Bongkal, Bengkalis-Riau reflects the way in which natural resources are being treated in Indonesia, in a way which creates ever more conflicts and removes essential resources from the Indonesian population. People are becoming ever poorer as they lose access to and control of the country’s natural riches. The government must immediately address agrarian conflicts and conflicts over natural resources. The people must be given back sovereignty over the resources on which their livelihoods depend. The government must restructure the pulp and paper industry as well as reviewing licenses for large-scale tree monoculture.
Contact: Ade Fadli (adefadli@walhi.or.id)
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