Palm oil company steals land, destroys rainforest

The Dayak village of Semunying Jaya, located in West Kalimantan, a province bordering the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has struggled for more than 20 years from successive companies destroying their customary lands.According to testimony from the village, discussed in the 2008 report Losing Ground, the destruction began with PT Yamaker Kalbar Jaya, “a logging concessionnaire and part of a