Category Archives: Merauke News

Marine working for PT Dongin Prabhawa shoots local man in Mappi

By admin | Published: February 10, 2015

Talema Waitipo, a 19-year old resident of the Maam area, Bade District, Mappi Regency, is currently in a weak condition as he lies in a bed at the Naval hospital in Merauke. He is believed to be the victim of shooting by a naval marine officer, who was providing security for PT Dongin Prabhawa’s oil […]

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MIFEE and other top-down developments in Papua will continue under Jokowi administration.

By admin | Published: February 6, 2015

Indonesian media have recently been widely reporting the head of Indonesia’s Investment Coodinating Board, Franky Sibarani, who stated his commitment to support stalled investment projects in Papua. He referred to a number of unspecified projects in the plantation, cement, fisheries and petrochemical sectors, including the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate, the agribusiness megaproject planned […]

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Komnas HAM’s National Inquiry into Indigenous Rights arrives in Papua

By admin | Published: November 30, 2014

Commissioners of Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) arrived in Jayapura last week for the Papuan leg of their National Inquiry into the rights of Indigenous People living on land classified as forest. Between 26th and 28th of November 2014 in Jayapura, the inquiry listened to the testimony of local residents from five areas […]

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PT Dongin Prabhawa Neglecting 27 Children from Ngguti District, Merauke

By admin | Published: October 23, 2014

According to Urbanus Kief Yolmen, who works with children in Merauke’s Ngguti District, 27 children from Nakias and Salamepe villages who PT Dongin Prabhawa has brought from their villages to stay in dormitories in order to continue their studies at middle and high schools are not being treated properly. According to Yolmen, the children have […]

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PT Medco Papua to clear 2000 hectares for rice cultivation

By admin | Published: October 19, 2014

PT Medco Papua will start to plant rice on 2000 hectares of land around several villages in Kurik District, Merauke. The company is currently making all necessary preparations including land-clearing and producing seedlings. The head of Kurik District, Stefanus Kagoup said to tabloidjubi.com on Friday 17th October that the company had already paid ‘tali asih’ […]

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Not planting, PT Cendrawasih Jaya Mandiri threatened with expulsion.

By admin | Published: October 1, 2014

PT Cenderawasih Jaya Mandiri, a sugar-cane company operating in Merauke Regency has been threatened with losing their operational area. The government has warned the company because it is not fully operational in line with the permits it has received. The head of the forestry and plantation agency in Merauke, Efendi Kanan, revealed on Tuesday (23/9) […]

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Thanks to MIFEE, 3.6% of Indonesia’s Emissions produced in Merauke.

By admin | Published: September 13, 2014

The Merauke Regency is experiencing a rapid rate of forest degradation and loss. This is ilustrated by Merauke Regency’s contribution to total emissons ((article doesn’t state whether this refers to carbon emissions or total greenhouse gas emissions)) in the province of Papua which is 45.29%. Merauke’s contribution to Indonesia’s national emissions is 3.6%. Tangke Mangi, […]

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PT Papua Agro Sakti pays 3.6 Billion Rupiah in Land Compensation to 8 clan chiefs in Merauke

By admin | Published: September 12, 2014

PT Papua Agro Sakti, which is investing in the sugar cane plantation business around the Animha and Jagebob areas, has paid out 3.651 billion Rupiah as ‘tali asih’ money to eight landowning clans. [‘Tali asih’ is a rather ambiguous term which is often used in Papua to mean compensation when a plantation company uses indigenous […]

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Communities Should Decide First, Before Permits are Issued.

By admin | Published: September 9, 2014

Indigenous people in Okaba think the government is disrespecting and ignoring the rights of indigenous Marind communities to information, and to take their own decisions about whether or not to surrender land rights. According to Gerardus Kaize, a Marind community leader from Okaba district, before the government issues any location permits the community should be […]

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Controversy of Environmental Permit Mechanism that Sidelines Community Participation.

By admin | Published: September 8, 2014

On 16th August 2014, the Cenderawasih Pos newspaper displayed a notice from the Papuan Provincial Environmental Management Agency (BPLH), taking up about 10 x 20 cm of one column. It informed the papers’ readers about the Merauke Bupati (elected regency leader)’s decision (number 133/2014) which concerned an environmental permit for a timber enterprise on PT […]

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