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is the world's largest exporter of palm oil, and in the last two decades vast areas of forest have been cleared to make way for plantations. the remote province of papua, home to asia's most extensive remaining rainforests, has escaped fairly untouched, until now. this film investigates how papua has become the new frontier for aggressive palm oil expansion. west papua, indonesia. some of the last untouched rainforests on the planet are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations.

indigenous tribes paid less than $10 us a hectare for their ancestral lands. here, a south korean palm oil giant carried out deliberate and illegal burning on its land. they have to developed a technique that can determine if a fire is intentional or not. this can bring liability to big corporations who are in charge

of these concession sites. the company at the centre of this story associated with the world's leading sustainable certification body. sings. the forest of west papua are some of the most biodiverse in the world. filled with unique flora and fauna, these rainforests sacred and essential to the hundreds of indigenous tribes who call them home. mandobo tribal elder petrus kinggo explains how the sago palms that grow wild in these forests

are a staple food for his community. but six years ago he got involved in something that changed his tribe's fate forever. he negotiated with a korean palm oil giant, called korindo, and persuaded his tribe and ten other clans to accept just $8 a hectare as compensation for their land.

he shows our bbc team a map of the area he claims is his ancestral forest. this receipt showing he received just over $30,000 us for 5000 hectares of land. korindo say they paid an additional $8 for the trees, an amount set out by the indonesian government, who gave them the permit. petrus says they felt pressure to sign. the company deny this and say all their dealings complied

with indonesian law — laws made 4000 kilometres away in the capital, jakarta. west papua, a former dutch colony, became part of indonesia in the 1960s, after a controversial referendum overseen by the united nations. jakarta maintains it is an integral part of the nation, recognised by the international community. but a low level separatist movement has been waged here ever since. translation: this is my land. our ancestors gave us this land. we want independence. indonesia has stolen

our land from us. how long have we been suffering in the jungle, how many people have died? there are just so few of us now. last year, the biggest independence protest in decades turned into riots and ended in deadly clashes with the army. control over the region's vast national resources — gold, copper and the forests — are one of the key flashpoints. despite its rich resources, it is amongst the poorest regions in indonesia. jakarta has vowed to change that, pumping money in, building infrastructure,

and opening up the region to investors. korean palm oil giant korindo has benefited greatly. they now control more land in papua than any other company, clearing nearly 60,000 hectares of forests, an area the size of chicago or seoul. their vast plantations now protected by state security forces. in may this year, when a local farmer turned up at the local office of korindo to complain about the destruction of his banana plantation,

the police were called. three hours later, he was dead. his daughter grieves over his body at the health clinic where he died. police say he died of a heart attack. cctv footage seen by the bbc captures a police officer hitting him.

korindo, while having no role in his death, says they gave the family $15,000 us and will pay for his two children's education up to university. his daughter says nothing will make

up for the loss of her father. our team heads deeper into the heart of papua to reach another korindo concession. here too, our team found palm oil development has bitterly divided tribes and families.

elizabeth left her village to work in the city. when she returned she found out her brother, now deceased, had sold their land to korindo. there is no electricity here or clear running water. those who can afford it use generators, but it costs four times more than in the capital, jakarta.

korindo turned down our repeated interview request, but said in a statement they have paid their compensation to communities and have put an additional $14 million us into social programmes. many of the tribe's allegations were investigated for two years by the leading global green certification body, forest stewardship council, or fsc, of which korindo is a certificate holder. the final report was never released but the bbc obtained a copy. it found evidence that korindo violated the rights of papuans and benefited from close military ties for its own economic benefit. the report recommended korindo be stripped of its fsc membership, but they decided to work with them. the fsc logo is meant to tell you as a consumer that the product comes from an environmentally friendly and socially responsible company.

the logo is used everywhere here in europe. it was on the sandwich napkin i was given with my lunch, and on the train ticket that got me here. we are here at the headquarters of the fsc to ask why this logo is being given to korindo. these things that happened in breach of our values, they were in breach of our values, they would remain in breach of our values. what is the best thing to do with that? they happened, right? is the best thing to do is to say, they were in breach of our values, and we're not going to have anything to do with that anymore. that is one option, that environmentalists would say you are taking a strong stance and therefore maybe other companies will feel they cannot get away with it as well? the end result, i think, and the logic of the board has been, we want to see the improvements happen. we want to actually see if we can help those communities that have had problems, that have been treated in wrong ways, that have

not been listened to, that have not been understood, to actually get something in terms of options, possibilities, remedy for what happened. remedy, he says, could be in the form of restoring forests, land rights or jobs. but he admits it will be a process that could take up to three years to work out. in a statement, korindo denied they were involved in any human rights violations, but acknowledged there is room for improvements, and say they are implementing new procedures and economic programs for locals. the fsc‘s investigation found no evidence of deliberate and illegal use of fire by korindo. it's also something the company strongly denies. researchers from the group forensic architecture,

based at goldsmith university, have been testing this claim. we had images and video footages that were looking, that were showing fire, and the smoke coming out of it, and it wasn't clear whether they were intentional or not. and with that, we started our research. this footage, taken from a plane by greenpeace indonesia in may 2013, shows stacks of timber burning. using clues in the image, they located it in satellite images, inside a korindo concession. they then went back to 2011, when this area was all forest, and used a technique that detects patterns of land clearing from satellite images. the blue, thick vegetation. red shows cleared earth. so, when i play this

month by month analysis, you will see that the pattern and the direction of clearing is very clear, it is moving from the central area, very clearly towards the east. next they added the heat sources picked up by nasa satellites, hotspot data, and they put the two together, over the same period of time. the patterns, the direction and the speed with which fires were set matched perfectly with the direction, the pattern and the speed with which land clearing had occurred in this concession site. that is evidence that the fires were set intentionally. if the fires were set from outside the concession sides, or due to weather conditions, they would have moved with a different directionality. they would be diffused.

they would be going up and down and south and west. but in the cases that we are looking at, there was a very clear directionality. korindo says there were many natural fires in the area, especially in 2015, due to an extremely long dry season. it insists all the land clearing was carried out with heavy machinery, and that the fires found in their concessions were started by villages to hunt giant wild rats hiding under stacks of wood. the people living near this concession told our team a different story.

another man said smoke from the fires covered their community for years. every year in indonesia fires send a thick haze across the region, causing breathing problems and sending large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

if korindo had deliberately used fire to clear land it would be in breach of the law. the indonesian government turned down our request for an interview. the fsc says the company agreed to stop all further forest clearing for now. in august, the fsc board met again, deciding korindo was on track and that they would continue to work with them on improvements. i believe there is a shift that needs to happen in korindo. they need to improve in a number of different areas and one of them is to actually seek and get the approval of the community. do they understand that? why would we ask for training of all their staff this year to happen if we thought they understood that? we don't think they understand. we think it is a new concept to them. isn't it too late for that? isn't this about putting a rubber stamp on something that has already happened ?

we are taking the bet, you could say, that what we are doing is the best chance for the people and the forest to get into a better situation faster than any other track we could have taken. elizabeth, whose brother took compensation for their ancestral forests from korindo, is sceptical that anything can make up for what has been lost. others have decided to go and work for the oil pump company,

hoping to build a new future there. petrus is fighting to protect what is left of the mandobo tribe's forest that now fall within korindo‘s concession.

he carries a heavy burden. as investors eye this,

one of the last untouched corners of the planet, petrus hopes other tribes hear his story. it may have turned colder, but to weekend ended on a fine not come up with plenty of sunshine, albeit a bit hazy. some of us cut the showers on sunday afternoon, particularly western scotland and also parts of north—west england as well. what will wind out in the bigger head? the uk will go for a bit of both rain and sunshine. high pressure giving way to these weather fronts from monday and tuesday, and turning

things were too initially in two parts of scotland and northern ireland. that will be a touch of frost as monty begins, quite a bit of sunshine early on, cloud increasing from the worst, the rain at times from northern ireland, particularly running into western scotland. the rain will mount here as it rains and tuesday. the one starting to pick up. eastern parts are cheaper with some sunny spells, still quite chilly. in the west, temperatures creeping up. the front doesn't move the south during tuesday, it has little vocal nowhere, so adjusters across northern ireland and scotland. if anything on tutor, the rain in northern ireland looks more widespread and heavier, and another speu widespread and heavier, and another spell coming back. parts of wales in western on both monday and tuesday could see patchy rain, for a central eastern and much of southern england will stay dry, and on tuesday, it is a bit milder. the weather front does finally get a move one overnight

into wednesday, pushing southwards into wednesday, pushing southwards into england and wales, with the run from that weather front turning increasingly light and patchy. there is colder following behind, increasingly light and patchy. there is colderfollowing behind, but within that colder air will be clearer skies, elements of sunshine to come on wednesday. so much i was pushing on to the north—west, especially not for scotland. central eton and southern england, still a better patchy rain. not particularly cold, temperatures just close to the seasonal cold, temperatures just close to the seasonal average. cold, temperatures just close to the seasonal average. high pressure nursing and on thursday, and that means the winds ease and greater chance of getting a force by thursday morning. could be some work for patches of brown, particularly parts of scotland and northern england. still a bit of cloud lingering in parts of southern england. most places, though, having a fine england. most places, though, having afine and england. most places, though, having a fine and very sunny thursday. an area of high pressure fighter

crosses going into friday, means barely a breath of one. a greater chance not just for fast barely a breath of one. a greater chance notjust for fast but barely a breath of one. a greater chance not just for fast but also fog patches going into friday morning. the weather frontjust starting to approach the western isles, may bring rain later. showers for a few of rain pushing on to wales in western england, not yet guaranteed. going into the weekend, high—pressure general is doing to oui’ ease, high—pressure general is doing to our ease, and the weather systems or dry to get in, but with very limited success. you may dry to get in, but with very limited success. you may see some rain dry to get in, but with very limited success. you may see some rain at times for the north and north—west, but we are into next week before the high pressure has a greater goal, starting to turn our wet weather wetter and when you are once again. this week, some heavy rain around parts of northern ireland and scotland, that clears the site was turning dry and cold, with the wind eating, and then the chance of frost and fog later in the week. not at the week of weather is shaping up.

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