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…
“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…
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…
Public information dispute between Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) and Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency has not finished until this time. At the trial on December 14, 2016, State Administrative Court stated that FWI won the objection submitted to the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency. Copy of Decision No. 2/G/KI/2016/PTUN-JKT dated December 23, 2016, are…
Konferensi Pers According to the mandate in Act No. 14 of 2008 regarding the Public Information Disclosure (KIP), the public’s rights to obtain and access all information, especially activities financed by public funds, are permitted based on the applicable regulations. According to the point of the Public Information Disclosure Act (UU KIP), every public agency is obliged to open access…
