Oetami’s chapter, Reconciling Development, Conservation, and Social Justice in West Kalimantan is one of 12 highly informative essays in this...publication. Drawn from her 2007 doctoral dissertation on farmer resistance to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan, Oetami studies the human impact on the ground of this lucrative estate crop. She argues the present mode of palm oil expansion based on large corporate plantations, imported labor and the takeover of customary land not only threatens forests but also leads to a structural poverty trap that can endure over generations. [refers to Sime Darby]