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Press Release, 10 December 2009
Indonesian Civil Society Forum for Climate Justice - www.csoforum.net (Copenhagen, 101209) Once again the Indonesian delegates appeared unprepared during the SBSTA meeting (8/12) to carry the mandate to save Indonesian people and forests from the negative impacts of climate change. They said, government of Indonesia welcomes any kind of funding for capacity building, technology transfer, as well as the reliable, predictable, and steady financing through REDD (1). This opportunistic gesture in effect opens the gate for more irresponsible funding schemes which likely to endorse more deforestation and human rights violations for forest dwellers and forest dependent people.
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Open Letter to the Danish Presidency as Host of the UN Climate Change
Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009
We, the undersigned civil society groups, express our concern over the actions of the Danish government in its role as President of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties.
The historic Copenhagen Climate Conference has yet to begin and a lengthening list of concerns is being raised by governments and by members of civil society: |
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Press Release, November 18, 2009
Union leaders from the ICEM (International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions), Indonesia, Brazil and Canada representing workers at Vale and Vale-Inco (majority owner of PT Inco) signed a Joint Statement in Soroako, South Sulawesi on Friday November 13 charging that the Brazilian based global mining company disregards the needs and rights of its workers and the communities in which Vale operates. |
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JATAM Press Release, 23 October 2009
At the time SBY having his second inauguration at Senayan for his second period of presidential regime, police troops violently confronting Kulon Progo communities for protesting against the PT Jogja Mangasa Iron (Australia). The foreign company plans to have south coast of Kulon Progo as their mining site. The brutality ended with 41 people injured. What happened that day is an example of how the government has put foreign investor interest as higher priority then the fate of local communities which rely on the sand dune agriculture as their livelihood.
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Press Release JATAM Kaltim - October 12th, 2009
10th Year of East Kutai Anniversary
(Samarinda, October 12th, 2009) Today the East Kutai commemorates its tenth anniversary. Currently 80% of East Kutai GDP depends on coal mining, which has been proved lethal. There are about 48 percent of its 203,156 citizens are poor. Surprisingly, about 45 percent of those populations inhabit areas in the vicinity of PT Kaltim Prima Coal (PT KPC) mine, owned by Bumi Resources, the largest coal scraper in Southeast Asia. Indeed, this tenth anniversary of East Kutai is more like to celebrate the gigantic scale colonization by PT KPC.
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