A number of environmental and labor activists on Tuesday (21/1) welcomed new data on Indonesian oil…
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Sawit Watch Airs Concerns Over Planned Revision of Manpower Law
Palm oil watchdog Sawit Watch is airing concerns that a plan by the Ministry of Manpower…
Sawit Watch: Presidential Instruction on Sustainable Palm Oil Fails to Address Root of Problems
Presidential Instruction number 6 of 2019 on the management of a sustainable palm oil industry for…
Watchdog wants RSPO members operating on peatlands to form forum
BANGKOK – Palm oil watchdog Sawit Watch is calling on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil…
Palm Oil Watchdog Wants Govt to Declare State of Emergency Over Forest Fire
The forest and ground fires that have been raging in Sumatra and Kalimantan for weeks now,…
Sawit Watch: Outsourcing Strengthen Discrimination Against Women Labor
Palm oil sector watchdog Sawit Watch is airing its opposition to proposals to expand the outsourcing…
Sawit Watch Calls on Govt to Firmly Enforce Law in Palm Oil Sector
In the wake of findings recently announced by the State Financial Audit Board (BPK), that reinforced…
Sawit Watch Points to Palm Oil Plantation Workers’ Poor Conditions
Sawit Watch is saying that exploitation of workers continues to take place in a number of…
Sawit Watch: Indonesia Has More than 21 Million Hectares of Oil Palm Plantations
While the Indonesian government says the country’s oil palm plantations cover some 14 million hectares, a…
Sawit Watch urges government on need for resolution of agrarian conflicts
The call was made in response to the intense expansion of palm oil plantations across Indonesia,…