Posts Tagged ‘PPLP (Paguyuban Petani Lahan Pantai = Shoreline Farmers’ Association)’
New: Booklet in Solidarity with Kulon Progo, the Yogyakarta 3 and Tukidjo (Indonesia)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
New booklet just released from Act for Freedom / Elephant Editions, all about the struggle in Indonesia against the mega-project threatening the coastal farming communities of Kulon Progo, featuring action reports, communiques, international solidarity and more.
Download the booklet from 325
The booklet is designed in a format to be printed out and reproduced. Please distribute.
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Soli-website for Kulon Progo.
FREEDOM FOR THE PRISONERS IN INDONESIA AS ELSEWHERE
Tags: Bandung, Indonesia, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Conspiracy for Revenge, International Revolutionary Front, International Solidarity, Kulon Progo, PPLP (Paguyuban Petani Lahan Pantai = Shoreline Farmers' Association), PPLP-KP (Coastal Farmers Association of Kulon Progo), RO-FAI (Indonesia Section), Tukijo
Posted in Eco Struggle, Library
Free the Hostage Tukijo – Kidnapped by Police (Indonesia)
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
News from the PPLP – Coastal Farmers Association of Kulon Progo:
Rough edited machine translation of PPLP statement:
Tukijo, one of the peasant resistance fighters against iron sand mining in coastal Kulon Progo, Indonesia has been tricked and abducted by police in a planned manner to meet the industrial interests, on Sunday, May 1st, 2011 at 11:00 pm. (more…)
Tags: Beach Farm Circle Farmers Kulon Progo, Kidnapping, Kulon Progo, PPLP (Paguyuban Petani Lahan Pantai = Shoreline Farmers' Association), PPLP-KP (Coastal Farmers Association of Kulon Progo), Repression, Tukijo
Posted in Eco Struggle
Eco-Struggle in Kulon Progo – Solidarity Needed (Indonesia)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
For more background on the community of Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia and their resistance to the planned Iron Mine on their land see: 325 #7
We hope that comrades from abroad can make a solidarity action for the farmers of Kulon Progo and make a presence to the nearest Indonesian Embassy regarding this case. Our dear comrades of Kulon Progo are in one spirit with us. They are our friends in struggle and daily lives. A recent statement from the Sultan of Yogyakarta dictates that they will continue this megaproject and so the consequences are more repression to come. But for sure, from recent gathering and since the beginning of resistance, the Kulon Progo’s peasants remained determined in their resistance and ready for the next social war. This is just a beginning.
For a video from the news media, see this video
Thousands of Kulon Progo Farmers Resist Corporate Evil, Fighting the Police.
This morning (Monday, 20th October 2009), around 2000 coastal farmers connected to PPLP (Paguyuban Petani Lahan Pantai = Shoreline Farmers’ Association), took to the street in front of the office of the mayor of Kulon Progo, in the town of Wates. Twenty-eight trucks full of farmers, who wanted to convey their wholehearted rejection of the planned project to mine iron sands, arrived to demonstrate at the public consultation event. They were in the mood for action, just as they had already carried out many times before. (more…)
Tags: Indonesia, Kulon Progo, PPLP (Paguyuban Petani Lahan Pantai = Shoreline Farmers' Association), PT. Jogja Magasa Iron (JMI), Yogyakarta
Posted in Autonomy, Eco Struggle