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An in-depth article released today reveals how the global palm oil industry, which supplies an ingredient found in thousands of products on supermarket shelves in Europe and the US, is driving the corruption of elections in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy.
Ghosts in the machine, from Earthsight’s The Gecko Project and environmental news site Mongabay, exposes how dark money from the palm oil industry is flushing into regional elections, allowing corrupt politicians to entrench their positions and channel land to plantation firms.
The investigation examines the events leading up to the arrest of Indonesia’s highest-ranking judge, Akil Mochtar, in October 2013. In the wake of Akil’s arrest it emerged that he had accepted millions of dollars from a number of candidates involved in regional elections across the Southeast Asian nation. The results of the many of these contests had been disputed before his court, the highest in the land, to be decided impartially.
Akil’s case, the biggest corruption scandal in years, electrified Indonesia, as it became clear that the judge had become a part of the corrupt system he was supposed to police. In 2014 Akil was jailed for life, but the source of the money used to bribe him remained in the shadows. Until now.
Ghosts in the machine traces the money to a series of land deals worth US$9.2 million, cut in the heart of Borneo in the months leading up to the regional elections in 2013. The investigation pieces together the web of shell companies and middlemen who play a central role in moving money from palm oil firms to politicians, and land licenses for plantations in the other direction. It draws from company documents, court records, and interviews with sources in Jakarta and Borneo, including confidential sources close to the people involved.
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Read Ghosts in the machine here.
Read commentary from Earthsight making the case for action on the collusion underpinning Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis here.
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One of these sources, who acted as a fixer for one of the politicians central to the case, likened the relationship between palm oil firms and politicians to “a cycle of evil”.
The deals in this case represent an area ten times the size of Manhattan, covering some of the best rainforest left on the island of Borneo, inhabited by thousands of indigenous people. Ghosts in the machine reveals how the need to bankroll a corrupt and expensive election drove the politician, a district chief named Hambit Bintih, to issue licenses that were against the interests of villagers in his jurisdiction, who had repeatedly protested against the prospect of large-scale plantations.
The Malaysian company that benefited from the land deals, is selling palm oil to traders that supply supermarkets across Europe and the US.
The available evidence suggests this case is just the tip of the iceberg. Ghosts in the machine builds on an investigation released by Earthsight and Mongabay last October, titled The making of a palm oil fiefdom, which chronicled how two of the industry’s biggest companies, Wilmar and the Triputra Group, built their businesses by buying assets from the family members and cronies of another politician in Borneo, a district chief named Darwan Ali.
The corrupt use of money in elections is an established and growing problem in Indonesia. The nation’s anti-graft agency has committed to cracking down on what has become known as “money politics”, as districts, towns and provinces across the country prepare for another round of elections this June — including in Gunung Mas, the district where the land deals behind the bribery of Indonesia’s top judge took place.
Ahead of another round of regional elections this June, candidates are being arrested for engaging in corrupt acts to bankroll their campaigns on an almost weekly basis. Ghosts in the machine reveals how more illicit, secretive deals may be going on under the radar; and how even if the politicians are busted, the palm oil firms stand to benefit once again.
Tom Johnson
Head of Research
Earthsight
Earthsight Projects:
www.thegeckoproject.org Investigative reporting on land deals, corruption and rights
www.bad-ag.info Monitoring illegal conversion of forests for agribusiness
Choice Cuts: How European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America
www.timberinvestigator.info Helping Activists and Communities Investigate Illegal Logging & Trade
The Phunoy are a significant Tibeto-Burmese population group from Phongsaly Province in northern Laos that has long been considered acculturated because of its adoption of various features of neighboring Tai societies, particularly Buddhism. This book presents pioneering research based on in-depth ethnographic surveys in Phunoy villages. It reexamines the supposed acculturation of the Phunoy and analyzes the group’s own independent identity. The author demonstrates how the Phunoy emerged from groups of war fugitives who sought new frontiers, and how they constructed a privileged “mirroring” relationship with the various Tai and Lao realms dominating the region. As guardians of the borders and allies of the colonial authorities who administered the province, they progressively formed a territory known as Mueang Phunoy, where they have securely established themselves as indispensable intermediaries between state power and the other mountain ethnic groups.
This study reveals long-lasting social, political, and ritual differentiations within Phunoy society. The integration of the Phunoy—and the accompanying disintegration of their village communities—continues within Lao society today, as part of the history of the stabilization of the margins in northern mainland Southeast Asia.
VANINA BOUTÉ is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Picardie and a member of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est in Paris, France.
“This lively book is the first ever study of one of the least known ethnic groups in mainland Southeast Asia. Vanina Bouté provides a fascinating reconstruction of the ethnogenesis of the Phunoy, which is inextricably linked to the politically dominant Tai Lue and Lao lowland populations. She examines the Phunoy settlement patterns, clan system, and religious configurations and brilliantly shows, from a diachronic point of view, the transformation of Phunoy ethnicity in the wake of migration, resettlement, and social modernization.”—Volker Grabowsky, University of Hamburg
“With this superb monograph, Vanina Bouté spearheads the nascent movement of in-depth, grounded anthropological research on the margins of the communist regimes of Asia.”—Jean Michaud, Université Laval
Southeast Asia | Laos | Anthropology | Phunoy | Ethnography | Ethnogenesis | Integration
Pour 
prendre connaissance de la dernière lettre du CASE cliquez ici
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Special issue “Potent Places in Southeast Asia ».
Guest eds. Anne Y. Guillou and B. Brac de la Perrière, 2017, Volume 18, Issue 5
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtap20/18/5?nav=tocList
INTRODUCTION
Potent Places and Animism in Southeast Asia, Anne Yvonne Guillou
https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2017.1401324
ARTICLES
Potent Places in Central Vietnam: ‘Everything that Comes Out of the Earth is Cham’, Anne-Valérie Schweyer
https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2017.1375553
Khmer Potent Places: Pāramī and the Localisation of Buddhism and Monarchy in Cambodia, Anne Yvonne Guillou
https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2017.1375553
On Periodically Potent Places: The Theatre Stage as a Temporarily Empowered Space for Ritual Performances in Cambodia, Stéphanie Khoury
https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2017.1366545
Singing in Dangerous Places (Flores, Lamaholot, Indonesia), Dana Rappoport
https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2017.1372515
From Potent Dead to Potent Places? Reflections on Muslim Saint Shrines in South Asia, Delphine Ortis
