Jakarta, February 12, 2018 – More than 30 thousand people urged the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency, Sofyan Djalil, to obey the Supreme Court’s decision through change.org/BukaInformasiHGU petition. In the petition initiated by the Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency, Sofyan Djalil, was considered not to obey the…
Bogor, 6 February 2018. The claim of the Puncak area as a protected area is being put to trial again. Deforestation, spatial planning, and licensing violations in the Puncak area suspected to influence the occurrence of floods and landslides around Bogor-Jakarta. The Puncak area has experienced massive forest and land damage for decades. FWI analysis showed, between 2000-2016, as…
“So PT. Borneo Surya Mining Jaya is destroying the forest, destroying the rights of the indigenous people of Muara Tae, intimidating, pressuring the Muara Tae community not to defend the land, ”said Petrus Asuy, Muara Tae’s traditional leader. It has been 46 years that Petrus Asuy and other Muara Tae indigenous peoples have defended their customary territories from seizure…
Bogor, December 9, 2017. Indonesian Forest Expo 2017 was an event that became a stage for Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) to tell the portrait of Indonesia’s forest conditions. For seventeen years, FWI monitoring Indonesian forest conditions where the never-ending forestry sector problems caused the deterioration of Indonesian forest quality and quantity. In Forexpo 2017, FWI presented these never-ending problems through…
At this point, the Indonesian Parliament under Commission II is preparing a Land Bill to be discussed with the Government. The Indonesian Parliament has submitted the Land Bill and academic papers since July 18th, 2016, and has been discussing it with the Indonesian authority. Starting in May 2017, the discussion of this land bill quickened. Minister of Agrarian Affairs and…
Kamis, 17 Agustus 2017 Enam puluh enam meter persegi kain merah putih dibentangkan di komplek vila Tugu Utara, Puncak, Bogor. Bentangan kain merah putih menjadi simbol aksi dari enam puluh enam kali luas Kebun Raya Bogor hutan alam yang hilang di Kawasan Puncak selama 16 tahun terakhir (2000-2016). Hutan di Puncak berperan sebagai pengatur tata air di wilayah hulu hingga…
Jakarta, June 19, 2017. Monday morning, the Forest Watch Indonesia held a peaceful action in front of the Ministry Of Agrarian Affairs And Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) building. In this action, FWI demanded Sofyan Djalil as the Minister of ATR/BPN to obey the law and implement the Supreme Court’s decision to open the Right to Cultivate (HGU) documents of…
Civil Society Coalition Policy Paper This policy paper contains seven reasons why the DPR and the government should immediately stop discussing the Palm Oil Bill. In January 2017, the government and the Indonesian Parliament agreed that the Palm Oil Bill should be one of the priority bills completed in 2017. The main reason put forward by the advocates for this…
Forest management in Indonesia can be identified by the development of the IUPHHK-HA (License to commercially utilize timber in natural forest), IUPHHK-HT (License to run business of industrial plantation), and IUPKH (License to utilize forest area) for small scale businesses such as IUPHHK-HTR (License to run business of plantation for social forestry), Community Forest and Village Forest. In the last…
Puncak area in Bogor Regency holds vital role for its surrounding areas with lower altitudes. The whole area is the upstream region of main watersheds: Ciliwung, Cisadane, Kali Bekasi, and Citarum rivers. More specifically, Puncak protected forest area is the main water provider for 3 watersheds: Ciliwung, Kali Bekasi, and Citarum, which irrigate main agricultural lands in West Java; Jonggol…
