Agrofuels – also known as biofuels - have been heralded as a low carbon solution to climate change in an energy-hungry world...Palm oil, a versatile vegetable oil...is increasingly in demand as an agrofuel...Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of crude palm oil, has already increased its palm estates to 7.3 million hectares...The damaging impact of oil palm plantations on the environment in South East Asia is already well-documented...An estimated 60-90 million people in Indonesia depend on the forests for their livelihoods, but many are losing their land to the expanding palm oil industry...Losing Ground...reveals growing evidence of human rights violations associated with the Indonesian oil palm industry...Demonstrations and land occupations are common, often resulting in a heavy crackdown from the company’s own security forces, the police or the military. Protestors have been arrested, beaten and even killed...Some of these conflicts can be traced back to earlier land disputes, particularly from the Suharto era...