PT MAYAWANA PERSADA Ecological Damages – Human Rights Violation Report

More than 35,000 hectares of natural forest were converted into industrial timber plantations. This includes orangutan habitat areas and peatlands where the government is prohibited from clearing them.

PT Mayawana Persada has also cleared customary forests on the land of the Kualan Hilir indigenous community. They have also pitted communities against each other to sell their land without proper compensation, intimidating and criminalizing.

The following is a joint report prepared by the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations regarding the ecological damage and human rights violations committed by PT Mayawana Persada in Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan.

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Annisa Rahmawati

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Annisa Rahmawati is a woman environmental activist. She started her career in 2008 as a Local Governance Advisor on a humanitarian program in Aceh - at EU-GTZ International Service which focused on peacekeeping and local government capacity building. Her experience in sustainable business comes from Fairtrade International as an assistant and at Greenpeace Southeast Asia as a Senior Forest Campaigner focusing on market campaigns for industrial commodities, especially deforestation-free palm oil from 2013-2020. In addition, Annisa also worked as a project assistant at UN-ESCAP Bangkok for sustainable urban development planning in 2012. Annisa has an educational background in Biology from Brawijaya University Malang and obtained a master's degree in International Management of Resources and Environment (IMRE) at TU Bergakademie Freiberg Germany with the support of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Foundation. Annisa is enthusiastic and passionate about spreading messages and awareness to the world about environmental issues and how to find solutions to make businesses more responsible, as well as how we can act to deal with the climate crisis that we are currently facing.