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The EU’s new deforestation regulation faces significant challenges in Indonesia

As members of Indonesia’s Civil Society, we support the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) for its potential to improve governance, especially in the palm oil industry.

For the first time, the spotlight will be...

15/12/2022

Could the palm oil arrangement between Indonesia and Switzerland offer lessons for EU and Indonesia free trade agreement negotiations?

The agreement innovates by linking tariff reductions to sustainability – but fails to integrate governance reform.

08/04/2021

Indonesia’s controversial Omnibus Law casts a long shadow

Indonesian civil society must always navigate challenges surrounding transparency, but this year they have been aggravated by social turbulence and COVID-19. A victory early in the year --in which the government removed a rule...

16/11/2020