Palm Oil Conflicts in Indonesia - dataset of 150 Company-community conflicts

This data set also contains 248 claim statements from community representatives made during these protest events, and reported in newspapers. A team of, in total, 19 researchers traced the emergence, chronology and outcomes of 150 such conflicts by collecting written sources (newspaper articles, online sources, government and NGO documents and academic studies) as well as engaging in 283 interviews with community leaders.

As part of these efforts we used the complete newspaper archives of four regional newspapers – Padang Express, Pontianak Pos, Kalteng Pos and Tribun Pekanbaru – for the years 2010 to 2019. We used these materials to write 150 extensive ‘case reports’ of each case on the basis of a shared template. We subsequently coded the trajectories of conflicts in terms of key characteristics - for example, type of grievances, involvement of conflict resolution mechanism, type and number of protests, etc.

A supplemental file describes this documentation process that led to this dataset. Date Submitted: 2023-11-17 Issued: 2023-11-17