Struggles for the Forests
When corporations destroy forests, or restrict or even prohibit access to forest peoples' territories, they place communities' ways of life and their very existence at risk. WRM supports forest peoples' struggles to defend their territories, and their right to decide how to live, and how to use the forests they depend on.
Articles
23 January 2026
Press Release of Solidaritas Merauke, Jakarta, 19 January 2026.
Publications
15 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.
Articles
22 December 2025
Joint Press Release.
Articles
10 December 2025
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
Articles
29 September 2025
Press Release of Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
Jakarta, 22 September 2025
Articles
25 June 2025
Civil Society Response to the Indonesian Government's Reply to the Letter from Nine UN Special Rapporteurs Regarding the Merauke National Strategic Project
Bulletin articles
24 June 2025
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.
Multimedia
1 April 2025
Video - Militarised deforestation in Papua: how Indonesia is converting indigenous forest into farms
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6 million hectares of land in Papua into rice fields and sugar cane plantations, annexing indigenous lands in the process. Thousands of troops have been sent from Java to support President Prabowo Subianto’s signature policy. Video made by The Gecko Project.
Articles
19 March 2025
In the framework of International Women's Day, WRM is relaunching the podcast “Women’s struggles for land”, with stories from women’s collectives from the coastal area of Chiapas in Mexico, the Malen Chiefdom in Sierra Leone and the Kapuas river area of Central Kalimantan in Indonesia. While their stories appear quite different from each other at first glance, we find many commonalities and a strong connection between them.
Bulletin articles
24 October 2024
This article tells the story of a Podcast that is being jointly launched with Solidaritas Perumpuan, a feminist organisation from Indonesia. This espisode is the third in the series “Women’s struggles for land”, produced by WRM together with organisations from different countries. This one tells the story of women's resistance to oil palm plantations, REDD and a large-scale project for food production (Food Estate) in three villages in Central Kalimantan.
Articles
9 May 2024
JATAM East Kalimantan denounces the recent move of the Indonesian Minister of Public Works and Public Housing, Basuki Hadimoeljono, to appeal against the decision of a State Administrative Court in Jakarta that the government should make public a number of documents that it had kept secret.
Bulletin articles
19 December 2023
President Jokowi calls the Kalimantan Industrial Park Indonesia (KIPI) “the largest green industrial area in the world”. But in reality, there is nothing green about the KIPI. It will lead to massive fossil fuel use, land and water grabbing, while threatening thousands of people in coastal communities with forced eviction. (Available in Indonesian).