The Impacts of Palm Oil and Mining Concessions in REDD+ Areas

Concessions are given to billions of hectares of forests under REDD+ areas in East Kalimantan. Permits are issued, and the program is still ongoing.

Avit Hidayat

March 4, 2024

NOORHADIE Karben will never forget how two oil palm companies destroyed 800 hectares of nursery forest in his village. The community figure from Mantangai Hulu village, Mantangai subdistrict, Kapuas Regency, Central Kalimantan, remembers that this happened in May 2014. The traditional village of the Dayak Ngaju tribe was meant to be a pilot for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program).

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