Gleanings Anew

Links to Indonesian Green news, often from international media, are published on this Facebook page, usually on a weekly basis. They will be posted here as part of the Gleanings series.

 - Apple to establish if tin from Bangka Island is used in iPhones as Friends of the Earth steps up pressure  to 'come clean' over use of child labour in Indonesia

- This is sad and as is this. Did the first lead to the second?

- Greenpeace and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets criteria for greener palm oil production, are caught up in a row over the origin of fires that cast a pall over Sumatra, Singapore, and Malaysia last month.

- Terusan village in West-Kalimantan (Indonesia) on the island of Borneo is completely surrounded by oil palm. The villagers grow rice and rubber on their ancestral lands. Recently, an oil palm company made Terusan an offer to convert their village land to an oil palm plantation. The people of Terusan have to make a choice about their future. They decided to map their ancestral lands as they attempt to take control of their future. Watch this video.

- Surprise, Surprise!
Corruption and mismanagement in Indonesia’s forest sector have cost the government billions of dollars in losses in recent years, including over $7 billion in losses from 2007-2011, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week.