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The palm oil crisis continues in southeast Asia, as the widespread transformation of ecologically complex jungles into palm oil monocultures for cooking oil continues, without any repercussions for the western corporations committing widescale extinction for their role in this.

The Indonesian government had zoned the area for agricultural use even though it lies within the Leuser Ecosystem, an area of exceptionally high conservation value due to its resident populations of endangered orangutans, tigers, rhinos, and elephants.

RAN didn’t specify what companies might source from Tualang Raya, but it noted that the three biggest buyers of palm oil from the Leuser Ecosystem region—Musim Mas Group, Wilmar International and Golden Agri-Resources—”have adopted policies that commit to halting forest destruction in their supply chains.”

“We need these buyers to take urgent action to intervene and secure the permanent protection of the priceless Leuser Ecosystem,” the group said.

This gets at the problem with voluntary supply chain management standards. They don’t work. Without government restrictions, fines, and punishments for violators, probably at the U.S. or European level since this is not going to happen at the Indonesian level in any meaningful way, the widespread ecological destruction of the rainforests will continue. It’s yet another example of how the world’s citizens need enforcement mechanisms against the wealthy and corporations up and down the supply chain to hold them operating in extra-legal ways (which includes corrupt national governments granting exemptions to their own laws) outside of national laws accountable. This is necessary for a sustainable future anywhere on the planet.

….See also, palm oil plantations and horrific wildfires.

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