{"id":333,"date":"2013-05-20T21:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkfeyerabend.org\/?p=333"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:12:02","slug":"norman-jiwan-laureat-ex-aequo-du-prix-paul-k-feyerabend-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/2013\/05\/20\/norman-jiwan-laureat-ex-aequo-du-prix-paul-k-feyerabend-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Jiwan: indigenous activist to control palm oil expansion in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Jiwan, a Kerambai Dayak from West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) is an NGO activist who works for the Indonesian NGO, SawitWatch, a watchdog group that tracks the palm oil industry in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He acts as director of the research and advocacy section of the organisation concerned with mitigating and controlling expansion. Indonesia is already the world&#8217;s number one palm oil producer with some 9.4 million hectares already allocated to the crop and up to a further 26 million hectares in regional plans but this has come at a heavy cost in terms of forest clearance, biodiversity loss, social strife, repression and green-house-gas emissions. Norman&#8217;s dedicated activism has helped to mobilize growing civil society, and consequently industry and government. Awareness of these problems helped suspend World Bank Group funding for the palm oil sector world-wide for two years and has built up a network of concerned support both in the country and around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-ceremony.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-ceremony-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Norman ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-ceremony-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-ceremony-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-Jiwan-award-Copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-Jiwan-award-Copy-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Norman Jiwan award\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-Jiwan-award-Copy-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-Jiwan-award-Copy-988x1024.jpg 988w, https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Norman-Jiwan-award-Copy.jpg 1943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Jiwan, a Kerambai Dayak from West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) is an NGO activist who works for the Indonesian NGO, SawitWatch, a watchdog group that tracks the palm oil industry in the region. He acts as director of the research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}