SABAR, Kurniawan. WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia campaign manager: "Europe’s demand for palm oil for biofuels... has escalated deforestation, land grabbing, and conflicts in Indonesia"

Kurniawan Sabar (campaign manager for WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia) on EU vote to limit biofuel use (2015): “The people of Indonesia will be relieved to hear that the EU has taken some action to limit Europe’s demand for palm oil for biofuels, which has escalated deforestation, land grabbing, and conflicts in Indonesia. The Indonesian government should take note and abandon its own plans for new subsidies to expand biofuels plantations in Indonesian forests” (Kurniawan Sabar quoted in Sean Buchanan, “European Biofuel Bubble Bursts”, Countercurrents, 5 May, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/buchanan050515.htm ).