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Palm oil firms depriving tribes of millions of dollars

Buy something in a supermarket and there's a good chance it will contain palm oil. Follow it back through the supply chain and eventually you'll find an oil palm tree, likely in Indonesia. But the companies that sell it to major firms like Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's and Mondelēz are depriving indigenous communities of potentially millions of dollars of income, a joint BBC investigation has found. Mat Yadi traces the path of the river, his spear ready to strike. But today, like most days, he doesn't catch anything. "Before there were lots of pigs, deer, antelope and hedgehogs," he says. "Now there's hardly anything alive." He's an Orang Rimba - one of the last nomadic tribes in Indonesia. For generations they have lived from the jungle on the island of Sumatra - harvesting rubber as well as hunting and gathering fruits. In the 1990s, a palm oil company arrived in their remote home of Tebing Tinggi with promises of wealth and development. It would take control of the community's ancestral land and in return, according to the Orang Rimba, they would get more than half of it back, planted with oil palms, a wonder crop in rising demand across the globe. It would be a win-win, as the tribe would sell the fruit they harvested to the company. ADVERTISEMENT

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