Indonesia Global Compact Network (GCN) and the Indonesian Working Group on Business and Human Rights. On 8 April 2006 about twenty-two companies and organizations in Indonesia declared to support, promote, and implement the United Nations Global Compact Principles (Indonesia GCN, n.d.). They established a local network, the Indonesia Global Compact Network, which has been actively promoting business and human rights issues even beyond the UN Global Compact. On 7 April 2017, IGCN established the Business and Human Rights Working Group comprised of representatives from businesses, NGOs and universities. Together with Oxfam, INFID, and other NGOs, IGCN established multi-stakeholder collaboration and organised periodic discussions to address business and human rights issues. r Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO). The Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) is a standard palm oil system used by the Indonesian government. ISPO was established in response to the 2008 Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Like ISPO, the RSPO is a global forum that revives BHR principles, and provides a Human Rights Working Group. ISPO and RSPO created high standards on human rights and environmental principles for their members (RSPO, 2013). The RSPO was initiated by environmental and human rights activists concerned about the social and environmental conditions that have occurred due to oil palm expansion mainly in Indonesia and Malaysia in 2004. The ISPO adopted almost all RSPO principles and criteria, the difference being, that RSPO is voluntary in character, and ISPO is a platform with supposedly mandatory social and environmental principles to be implemented by oil palm companies in Indonesia (ISPO, n.d.). r CSO-led Initiatives Currently, many NGOs and civil society coalitions are working on business and human rights issues. Within the land and agriculture sector, KPA, ELSAM and YLBHI have been working on the intersection of land conflicts and the violation of human rights. Others, such as Sawit Watch have been focusing on monitoring and advocacy work on the impact of palm oil industries. Sawit Watch and Forest Peoples Programme have sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in response to the Ruggie Report. In their letter, they called for the UN 60 Upholding Land Rights amidst the Land Rush

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