Category Archives: Merauke News

PT Bio Inti Agrindo hasn’t met its obligations.

By admin | Published: August 9, 2014

Donatus Mahuze from Muting village in Merauke, still doesn’t want to open the customary barrier prohibiting passage (palang adat) which he installed on his ancestral land alongside the Muting- Tanah Merah road. “We have installed this customary barrier so that PT Bio Inti Agrindo (BIA) pays attention to, and takes seriously, its responsibility to pay […]

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Oh look, there were fires in PT Dongin Prabhawa’s concession this week

By admin | Published: August 7, 2014

The new Geographic Information Sistem (GIS) data available on the Sawit Watch website makes it easy to see if there have been fires within the borders of oil palm concessions. For example this week (August1st –  5th) there were four hotspots within PT Dongin Prabhawa’s (Korindo group) concession in Merauke: You can check for yourself […]

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People of Baad Anxious about Sugar-cane Investment

By admin | Published: July 27, 2014

The Malind people in Kampung Baad, Animha District, Merauke are extremely anxious about a new investor which wants to use their ancestral lands and forests for a commercial sugar-cane plantation. They worry that they might lose their land and forest which is the source of their livelihood. Since 2010 various companies have come to the […]

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Oil palm company is destrying the fraternal links within communities around Muting and Bupul

By admin | Published: July 4, 2014

[awasMIFEE note: The latest oil palm company to get a permit in Merauke, PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera, has been moving fast, distributing money to leaders of landowner clans before the community has had the chance to reach a collective decision on whether they actually want to sell their land, therefore provoking intercommunity conflict, according to […]

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PT Medco Papua in Merauke stops work, will resume once the Market Price Stabilises.

By admin | Published: June 18, 2014

PT Medco Papua, which operates a forestry business in the Boepe area, Kaptel District, Merauke, exporting wood out of Merauke, has stopped its operations for the time being. This stoppage came about because various things the company were doing were contravening the labour law (law no. 13/2003). Officials from the Labour and Transmigration Agency had […]

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Landowning Clan shows PT Agriprima Cipta Persada in Muting the Limit for Land Clearing

By admin | Published: June 1, 2014

In Muting, oil palm company PT Agriprima Cipta Persada (ACP) is expanding its plantation area by clearing forest on which local indigenous people hold customary ownership rights. Previously in 2013, PT ACP had already cut down the forest and cleared around 2000 hectares of land, allocated to the local transmigrant population but some distance from […]

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MIFEE during Romanus’s Term of Office: New Permits and Deforestation Threats.

By admin | Published: April 6, 2014

For more than three years (8th January 2011 -March 2014) the Merauke Regency leader Dr. Romanus Mbaraka and his deputy MT Sunaryo S. Sos, have taken charge of Merauke Regency, claiming the ideal of meaningful change through a green development approach and policies – or at least that was the message during their election campaign. […]

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PT Selaras Inti Semesta’s promises that have failed to materialize

By admin | Published: April 6, 2014

On Friday afternoon (21/4) the Kampung Zanegi clinic grounds were crowded with people, sitting together on the mats they had spread out to discuss various matters connected with the PT Selaras Inti Semesta (SIS) industrial forest plantation. One interesting and serious issue concerned the promises the company had made to support the education of Zanegi’s […]

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Conflict in Indonesia’s Papua Region

By admin | Published: April 5, 2014

GOHONG, 28 March 2014 (IRIN) – The clearing of forests inhabited by indigenous people in Indonesia’s Papua* Region by agribusinesses is fuelling conflict in the southern Merauke Regency, say campaigners. “Indigenous peoples rely on their land for their survival and therefore any incursion onto their land creates serious problems for any community,” Sophie Grig, a […]

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PT Wahana Samudra Sentosa: Another Industrial Forest Plantation in Merauke?

By admin | Published: February 22, 2014

PT Wahana Samudra Sentosa is a company that is applying for permits for a 79,033 hectare industrial forestry plantation in Merauke. On Friday 21st February the Merauke Regency Government announced on its website that the company’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Management Plan and Environmental Monitoring plan meet all the necessary requirements to be given […]

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