Fitri Arianti is a senior forest campaigner at Rainforest Action Network.
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The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.
Fitri Arianti is senior forest campaigner at Rainforest Action Network (RAN). A Jakarta native raised in California with a background in development studies, Arianti serves as a cultural translator, working with RAN’s grassroots partners in Indonesia to profile the social impacts of the palm oil industry, build joint strategies, and hold corporate offenders accountable. Find her online at @CuriousFitri.
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As RSPO Celebrates 20 Years of Work, Indigenous Groups Lament Unresolved Grievances
Co-authors: Hans Nicholas Jong | Mongabay | December | 2023
In 2023, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) held its annual conference in Jakarta to celebrate 20 years of growth and impact—but activists and Indigenous communities say they’ve been waiting years for RSPO to resolve ongoing conflicts and long-standing complaints. Fitri Arianti explains why communities are losing faith in the system.
Co-authors: Grace Dungey | Mongabay | October | 2022
Fitri Arianti comments on the Indonesian Supreme Courtʼs decision to uphold the employment status of palm oil workers that found Lonsum in breach of labor rights conditions.
A Preliminary Perspective
Co-authors: Oliver Pye, Rizal Assalam, Michaela Haug and Janina Puder | Transnational Palm Oil Labor Solidarity | September | 2021
The basic business model is based on the plunder of nature through large-scale monoculture plantations that destroy biodiversity and depend on the widespread use of herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. This ecological model of cheap nature is connected to a social model that depends on cheap labor.
Invisible No More?
Co-authors: Zafirah Zein | Eco-Business | December | 2018
Fitri Arianti contributes to a discussion of how women are a largely invisible part of the labor force in Indonesiaʼs palm oil industry.
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Feature | October | 2022
A live meeting with Rainforest Action Network (RAN) supporters. The goal is to report back on direct actions in 2022 against brands like Procter & Gamble. Ariantiʼs segment lasts from 9:00 to to 12:47. At the end, RAN gives P&G Executives surprise phone calls to let them know that as long as they source the ingredients for their products from suppliers that are complicit in destroying rainforests and the livelihoods of Indigenous communities.
Feature | 2016
What’s really in that snack food? Too frequently, the answer is palm oil produced with modern day slavery, child labor, and worker and human rights abuses. Sacrificing the lives, health, and safety of the people who work on palm oil plantations is far too high a price to pay for the cheap palm oil used in snack foods made by companies like PepsiCo.
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