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eka ----- Original Message ----- From: <WALHI--Int'[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:59 AM Subject: [WALHI Updates] No. 1, May 2003 > ================================================================== > This 1st edition electronic update is launched world wide. You may be receiving this email because you have worked together with WALHI or given support to social and environmental issues in Indonesia. Thank you. > > Kindly refer to the end of this message for subscribe/unsubscribe info. > > Feel free to forward this message! Thank you for helping us spread our message. > ================================================================== > > **************************************************************************** ******* > [WALHI Updates] is a bi-weekly electronic update on campaigns, news, and activities from Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) to its international partners and the general public. > > **************************************************************************** ******* > [WALHI Updates] > No. 1, May 2003 > ************** > Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) commemorates World Environment Crisis Day, 5 June 2003! > > HIGHLIGHTS: > > "During interrogation, the policeman wrote (the name of the company) down, 'INDORAYON', and I said "Oh, INDOROJAN (ROJAN means poison)." And they kept trying to make me pronounce it 'INDORAYON', but I kept saying 'INDOROJAN' (=poison) 'cause that's what the name means to me." > > --testimony from Nai Marsinta Boru Sianipar from Sugapa village about her experience under police arrest in 1986. The elderly woman is just one out of tens of thousands of villagers in Toba Samosir Municipality, North Sumatra province, who have been struggling for 17 years to close down PT Indorayon, a pulp and paper mill, which is guilty of human rights abuses and years of severe environmental destruction. After halting operations for almost 4 years due to massive public opposition, the Indonesian government decided to re-open the mill under a different name, PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL). Local communities, religious leaders, and local government officials have joined hands, once again, to make sure that the mill is closed down, and this time, for good.-- > (see http://www.walhi.or.id/English/community%20struggles/save%20toba%20samosir.h tm ) > > ============================================================================ ==== > Table of contents: > NATIONAL UPDATES: > 1) WALHI National Executive Office launches bi-weekly update > 2) Call to suspend wood purchases from Indonesia > > REGIONAL UPDATES: > 3) Welcome to the Family!! > 4) Indonesian Heroes of the Earth from Toba Samosir > > WEB UPDATES AND PUBLICATIONS > ============================================================================ ==== > > NATIONAL UPDATES: > > 1) WALHI - FoE INDONESIA LAUNCHES NEW BI-WEEKLY UPDATES > > With the aim of providing regular updates for international partners and the general English-speaking public, WALHI National Executive has launched [WALHI Updates], a bi-weekly electronic update on news, campaigns and activities of the organization and its members. > The update is the latest news from the Campaign and Public Education Division of WALHI National Executive Office in Jakarta. Materials are compiled and distributed by WALHI's International Outreach person who is currently working with a team to make the electronic updates available from the organization's website (www.walhi.or.id). [WALHI Updates] will inform you on WALHI's activities and campaigns on both the national and regional level. Information on local issues and direct action will fill you in on what's going on at the local level while you can also have a glimpse of new English materials posted on WALHI's bilingual website. [st] > > > 2) CALL TO SUSPEND WOOD PURCHASES FROM INDONESIA > > In collaboration with WALHI and AMAN (Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago), Rainforest Action Network, US, launched a campaign to call on U.S. firms to stop buying wood from Indonesia. A statement was launched to the media to publicise the decision of two lumber giants to stop buying wood from Indonesia as a commitment to curb illegal logging, and also to expose two other giant corporations, Georgia Pacific and Home Depot, adamantlycontinue importing Indonesian timber (see: http://www.ran.org/ran_campaigns/old_growth/indonesia/ ). > A week prior to the statement, WALHI launched a press release on the grave state of Indonesia's forests, explaining that reducing the demands for Indonesian timber is the only way to curb the ravages of illegal logging in Indonesia. WALHI directed the call to the lumber and paper giant, Georgia Pacific, who have invested in and purchased plywood and sawn wood from Soeharto's family and friends during the dictator's reign. This press release also marked the launching of a study on forest certification in Indonesia, titled "The Application of FSC Principles No. 2 and 3 in Indonesia: Obstacles and Principles", commissioned by WALHI and AMAN, in collaboration with The Rainforest Foundation. [st] > > (for statements and publications, see: WEB UPDATES AND PUBLICATIONS section). > > ============================================================================ ==== > REGIONAL UPDATES: > > 3) WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!! > > The entire WALHI - FoE Indonesia family welcomes and congratulates the following peoples: > > - Nyoman Sri Widiyanti, the newly-elected Director of WALHI Bali > - Inda Fatinaware, the newly-elected Director of WALHI South Sulawesi > - Sardiyoko, the newly-elected Director of WALHI East Java > - Yohanes, the newly elected Director of WALHI West Kalimantan > > In coordination with WALHI National Executives and other regional executives, communities and other NGOs, WALHI Bali, WALHI South Sulawesi, WALHI East Java, and WALHI West Kalimantan work on a range of issues, including: mining, GMOs, forestry, indigenous communities, and more. To Inda, Sardiyoko, and Yohanes who are currently taking part in WALHI's National Consultation on the Environment (KNLH) in Puncak, West Java, we wish you the best for all work to come!! [st] > > > 4) INDONESIAN HEROES OF THE EARTH FROM TOBA SAMOSIR > > At noon, Tuesday, April 29, 2003, around 400 women from villages in Porsea District within the Toba Samosir Municipality, gathered in the middle of the road in front of the entrance to the pulp and paper mill, PT Toba Pulp Lestari -- as the company formerly named PT Inti Indorayon Utama is currently calling itself. One lady, Boru Napitupulu, led the others to sing out repeatedly, "...Today is time for action! So, let's give them a demonstration!..." > > When they saw 4 trailer trucks approaching towards them, carrying eucalypt logs for pulp materials, the women stood up: determined not to let the convoy pass by into the mill. > ...details, see: http://www.walhi.or.id/English/community%20struggles/INDONESIAN%20HEROES%20O F%20THE%20EARTH%20FROM%20TOBA%20SAMOSIR.htm > > To help or contribute: http://www.walhi.or.id/English/community%20struggles/tobasa%20account.htm > > ============================================================================ ======= > > WEB UPDATES AND PUBLICATIONS > > Statements/Releases: > > The Indonesian Forum for Environment Calls on Georgia Pacific to Suspend Purchases from Indonesia, May 8, 2003 > http://www.walhi.or.id/English/press_release/The%20Indonesian%20Forum%20for% 20Environment%20calls.htm > > WALHI's Statement on the Imposed Martial Law in Aceh, May 20, 2003 > http://www.walhi.or.id/English/press_release/walhi_pos_stat_on_aceh.htm > > The Discussion about Restructurisation of Pulp-Paper Industry Should Involve the Community, May 13, 2003 > http://www.walhi.or.id/English/press_release/collective%20statement%20in%20p ulp-paper%20industry.htm > > Statement of Civil Society Groups Withdrawal from WBEIR, April 27, 2003 > http://www.walhi.or.id/English/press_release/withdrawal_from_EIR.htm > > WALHI's Political Statement on Military Agression Against Iraq, March 24, 2003 > http://www.walhi.or.id/English/press_release/walhi_statement.htm > > Publication(s): > > �?oReview of Disputed Forest Allocations > A Summary and Analysis of the Review Findings�?� > May 2003, Papua New Guinea > > WALHI recently obtained the following document which summarises the findings of a review of nine controversial logging operations in Papua New Guinea. > Given the serious nature of the issues it raises, WALHI decided to place the document on its web site, so that all concerned with the peoples and forests of Papua New Guinea can have access to this information. > To download Summary, Introduction, or entire report (257 KB) in pdf format, go to: www.walhi.or.id > > > "The Application of FSC Principles No. 2 and 3 in Indonesia: Obstacles and Possibilities" > By Marcus Colchester, Martua Sirait and Boedhi Wijardjo > with contributions by Silvester Tomas Daliman, and Herbet Pane > WALHI and AMAN, 2003 > > This study examines the obstacles and challenges to the implementation of FSC Principles 2 and 3 in Indonesia. The first part reviews the international experience with the implementation of these "Principles and Criteria", while the main part of the report then examines the Indonesian situation. The study was commissioned by WALHI - FoE Indonesia and AMAN (Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago) in collaboration with The Rainforest Foundation. > To download entire report per chapter in pdf format, go to: www.walhi.or.id > > > "Undermining Indonesia: Adverse Social and Environmental Impacts of > Rio Tinto's Mining Operations In Indonesia" > By Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) > WALHI, 2003 > > Rio Tinto has a sizable stake in the following Indonesian mines - Kelian gold mine, Grassberg gold and copper mine, East Kutai coal mine, and the proposed Poboya gold mine. Undermining Indonesia looks at the social and environmental impacts of these mine. > To download entire report (109 KB) in pdf format, go to: http://www.walhi.or.id/English/reports/riotinto2003.pdf > > > ************** > [WALHI Updates] > No. 1, May 2003 > **************************************************************************** ******* > [WALHI Updates] is a bi-weekly electronic update on campaigns, news, and activities from Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) to its international partners and the general public. > **************************************************************************** ******* > For communications and comments, please send e-mail to Estee: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > **************************************************************************** ******* > Materials in [WALHI Updates] should be credited to WALHI-Friends of the Earth Indonesia when reprinted. > **************************************************************************** ** > ============================== > International Outreach > Div. 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