HSBC and the Palm Oil Sector in South East Asia: towards accountability Forest Peoples Programme with Profundo Forest Peoples Programme November 2008 HSBC and the Palm Oil Sector in South East Asia: towards accountability Forest Peoples Programme with Profundo This document has been elaborated as part of a long term commitment by the Forest Peoples Programme to promote the observation of human rights and accountability in the palm oil sector. Previous studies on this theme include: Marcus Colchester, Norman Jiwan, Andiko, Martua Sirait, Asep Yunan Firdaus, A. Surambo and Herbert Pane, Promised Land: Palm Oil and Land Acquisition in Indonesia – Implications for Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples. Forest Peoples Programme, Sawit Watch, HuMA and ICRAF, Bogor, 2006 (also available in Bahasa Indonesia). Marcus Colchester and Norman Jiwan, Ghosts on our own land: oil palm smallholders in Indonesia and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Forest Peoples Programme and SawitWatch, Bogor, 2006 (also available in Bahasa Indonesia). H Marcus Colchester, Wee Aik Pang, Wong Meng Chuo and Thomas Jalong, Land is Life: Land Rights and Palm Oil Development in Sarawak. Forest Peoples Programme and SawitWatch, Bogor, 2007 (also available in Bahasa Melayu). We are grateful to the CS Mott Fundation, the Moriah Fund and the Ford Foundation for supporting the research which led to this publication. All documents are available on FPP’s website: www.forestpeoples.org Forest Peoples Programme Forest Peoples Programme Profundo 1c Fosseway Business Centre Van Duurenlaan 9 Stratford Road, 1901 KX Castricum Moreton-in-Marsh GL59 9NQ, England The Netherlands tel: +44 (0)1608 652893 tel: +31-251-658385 fax: +44 (0)1608 652878 fax: +31-251-658386 email:
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