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Article

3 Aug 2007

Author:
James Painter, BBC

Losing land to palm oil in Kalimantan [Indonesia]

Barto...leader of [the] Dayak Kanayan community...says: "This is our ancestors' land which we have had for years, and now we have lost it."...West Kalimantan...is a key region earmarked for palm oil expansion...The EU recently agreed to replace 10% of its transport fuel with biofuels, including palm oil, by 2020. The village is just one of several where the land rights of local communities and indigenous groups come head to head with new concessions given to palm oil companies...The villagers say about 25 of their plots were cleared for palm-oil expansion without their consent...Sawit Watch and Friends of the Earth argue social conflicts are another downside to palm oil expansion, which has already been heavily criticised for being one cause of Indonesia's high rate of deforestation. [refers to Duta Palma group, Wilmar, Unilever]