The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Indonesia and Malaysia, generating wealth along with economic, social, and environmental controversy. Who benefits and who loses from oil palm development? Can oil palm development provide a basis for inclusive and sustainable rural development? Based on detailed studies of specific communities and …
PT. Rezeki Kencana (Tianjin Julong Group) is one of the suppliers of WILMAR (PT. Wilmar Cahaya Kalbar). It has been indicated that the company entered Kampung Baru, Sungai Raya, Kubu Raya Regency, West Kalimantan Province in 2007 without prior proper socialization to the community members. Due to the lack of Free, Prior, Informed and Consent (FPIC) process, most community members do not have…
Around 2011 and 2012, Titus Money (32 years old) from the great tribe of Yerisiam Gua and Wateburuh tribe who worked as Public Relations supervising security in PT Nabire Baru, a subsidiary of Goodhope Holding Company, demanded unpaid wages for 4 months. When demanding the wage, the company was always stalling time to pay the wage in the next month. It then triggered Titus’s emotion to…
Buku ini melakukan pendekatan kapitalisme dilihat sebagai suatu sistem yang menggunakan alat produksi yang berada dalam tangan sektor swasta untuk menciptakan laba dan sebagian dari laba ditanamkan kembali guna memperbesar kemampuan menghasilkan laba.
Provide us with practical information in easily understood language about the petroleum industry and the impact of petroleum on a producing country.
Why are Americans so fat? Two words: fast food. What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire month? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just that and embarks on the most perilous journey of his life. The rules? For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must wolf three squares a day; he must consume everything on the menu at least once and supers…
Oil is a fundamental component of nationhood in Mexico. The 1938 expropriation of oil resources concluded a process of internal political consolidation and thus became the most important symbol of nationalism. when the constitution allows private investment in the regulatory law bans any private participation. Because of its political sensitivity, however, amending the law in order to reform th…