Deal #192 Version #45249

*Demonstrations by villagers have been going on since the beginning of 2013. There have been mediation attempts, but to no avail. During a hearing with the local parliament in the beginning of 2015, the communities demanded the return of 2,800 ha to the community.

*KLK has acknowledged that it has a land dispute with communities within its claimed land bank of PT Adei in the area of the Mandau POM, Riau province. The dispute concerns an area of 2,500 ha. PT Adei has a dispute with citizens of five surrounding villages: Kemang, Palas, Sering, Telayap and Batang Nilo Kecil.

*Summer of 2016, PT Adei is on trial for deliberately setting forest fires that led to record-setting air pollution levels. Two other KLK plantations are charged with threatening endangered Bornean Orangutans, in violation of national law. *PT Adei Plantation, which operates two oil palm plantations in Riau, has been convicted for open-burning practices committed in 2000. *The conflict was about land rights, as well as the destruction of beehives and the access road by the company were protested by the villagers in 2013.

*July 2013, Sawit Watch conducted a visit to two KLK plantations in East Kalimantan and found many child labourers. The children had no contracts with the contractors who recruited them or the company. The contractors held their fake IDs and important documents, including diplomas, to ensure they could not leave the plantation.