Indonesia

Communities in Indonesia living with mangrove forests face many threats like the imposition of nickel mining but also mangrove forest carbon projects. In different ways, these projects cause harmful impacts on their lives. Meanwhile, communities continue resisting and restoring mangroves by themselves, with women at the forefront.

In this publication the Indonesian organisation Walhi denounces the country’s government classification of the floods and landslides that heavily struck Aceh, North and West Sumatra in December 2025 as a ´natural disaster´.

Press Release of Solidaritas Merauke, Jakarta, 19 January 2026.

The Indonesian government wants the country to become ‘green’ by increasing the share of so-called ‘renewable energy’ to 74% of its energy matrix. This new briefing reveals and alerts about what goes behind this promise for more ‘green’ energy in Indonesia, of which a significant part is supposed to be generated by mega hydropower dams.

Joint Press Release.

The government of the Brazilian state of Pará – host of the COP30 climate conference – introduced an annual “Week of Awareness on the Importance of Carbon Credits”, the Indonesian government sets up a “Seller meets buyer” sales booth for carbon credits at the COP. These are the more visible signs of climate talks that are more concerned about creating business opportunities than halting the climate crisis.

Hari ini, Rabu, 10 Desember 2025, diperingati sebagai hari internasional untuk Hak Asasi Manusia, ditengah situasi horor kemanusiaan dan bencana ekologi yang memprihatinkan. Penderitaan, luka dan air mata, karena kehilangan tanah dan harta benda, kekerasan, penyiksaan fisik dan psikis, pengungsi di tanah sendiri dan korban pelanggaran HAM, masih terus terjadi di tanah

We are peasants from Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil. In recent decades, we have witnessed the spread of oil palm monocultures in our territory, an expansion driven by multinational companies with government support. False promises led us to accept plantation partnership schemes that put us at risk of losing our land. What was once forest and traditional crops have been replaced by monocultures that have left us with food shortages, debt, and the threat of floods. For this reason, we organized ourselves to end this exploitation and restore our traditional way of life. And here we share the story of our struggle.

Press Release of Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat Jakarta, 22 September 2025

Civil Society Response to the Indonesian Government's Reply to the Letter from Nine UN Special Rapporteurs Regarding the Merauke National Strategic Project

The following excerpts are from conversations we had with people who, despite living on different continents, have made the same choice: to live without electricity. Whether they live in the Indonesian archipelago or the Brazilian Amazon, their testimonies show that electricity is not an essential resource for human life. On the contrary, for these people, it is essential to do without it.

WRM Bulletin 274 included an article on the work of the Earthworm Foundation, entitled: ‘NGOs at the service of plundering territories: the Earthworm Foundation case’. It describes how corporations which are causing conflict in the territories where they operate profit from cooperation with groups like Earthworm Foundation, while violence against community activists, landgrabs and sexual assaults of women continue.