How Musim Mas Navigates Palm Oil’s Bad Reputation

How Musim Mas navigates palm oil’s bad reputation

Deforestation can drive wildlife to the brink of extinction, trigger transboundary haze from the fires set to clear the vegetation, and contribute to forced labour – and its association with palm oil accounts for the industry’s bad reputation.

Greasing the Wheels of Colonialism: Palm Oil Industry in West Papua

A landmark study published in Global Studies Quarterly in April 2025 has revealed that the rapid expansion of the #palmoil industry in #WestPapua is not only fuelling #deforestation, #ecocide and environmental destruction but also perpetuating colonial-era patterns of land dispossession, #violence, and erasure of #Indigenous #Papuan communities.