As Asia’s first-ever Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) to combat illegal logging was signed into law, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) cautioned that it would also serve as a test of official resolve to stamp out serious corruption in Indonesia’s forest sector
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today welcomed a legal probe by Indonesia’s national anti-corruption agency into million-dollar payments by a rogue cop-turned-timber smuggler to local, regional and national police officials
At EIA, we love to interact with future environmental champions as well as today’s environmental leaders. That’s why it’s always a great pleasure to host the students of Michigan State University’s course on Environmental Science, Policy and Criminology
At a meeting of major oil palm producers and their European and US customers in Jakarta seeking to work towards deforestation-free palm oil by 2020, Abdon Nababan, Secretary General of AMAN, the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of Indonesia’s Archipelago, laid bare the challenges facing forest-dependent communities.
EIA is calling on the world’s main ‘sustainable palm oil’ certification schemes to immediately commission independent investigations into the illegal burning of land in concessions owned by member companies in Sumatra, Indonesia following a dramatic rise in forest and land fires in Riau province in recent weeks
A video of illegal logging operations in the ecologically outstanding Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua has today been released by environmentalists following the arrest of rogue Indonesian cop-turned-smuggler Labora Sitorus, who financed and coordinated timber theft on a huge scale