Industry and plantation of palm oil in Borneo, Indonesia,is continuing to cause controversy. After displacing and destroying forests and the ecosystems, now the industry of palm oil began to displace resident land. Quoted on tempo.com on 27th of January[1], the expansion of palm oil plantation has displaced 75% of land residents that causing residents lost their homes and their lands. This is facilitated by the absence of a certificate of land by citizens, which makes the residents lands become easier evicted by the company. Whereas the uncertifcate land is customary land which is doesn’t have a certificate. This land evictions was related to Presidential Instruction No. 6 of 2013 which is about the protection of primary forests and peatlands, forcing employers to think a ‘dirty strategy’ to attack the resident fields. It’s depressing and worrying, isn’t? Employers seems like don’t have a feelingonly for the sake of oil fields. The question is, how much benefit from the oil industry they got? And how bad the impact of the presence of the oil industry in Borneo?
