Monthly Archives: May 2015

As forestry moratorium is renewed, here’s an example of how it doesn’t work from Mappi

By admin | Published: May 21, 2015

Indonesia’s forestry moratorium was renewed on Wednesday 13th May, on the day it was set to expire. The original moratorium dates from 2011, and has already been renewed once in 2013 and supposedly prevented the government from awarding any new permits on areas classed as primary forest or peatland. Environmentalists in Indonesia had been urging […]

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Arrests at demo demanding justice from PT Permata Putera Mandiri in Sorong

By admin | Published: May 18, 2015

Dozens of local people involved in the IPPMI (Union of Iwaro Youth and Students) held a protest action outside the offices of PT Permata Putera Mandiri (PPM) on Jalan Ahmad Yani in Sorong City on Friday lunchtime. The participants were demanding justice and a resolution of the situation whereby local people had lost out due […]

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Jokowi relaunches MIFEE, wants 1.2 million hectares of new ricefields within 3 years!

By admin | Published: May 15, 2015

Indonesian President Joko Widodo made his second presidential visit to Papua on 9th and 10th May. In Jayapura he made two small but welcome gestures, pardoning five long-term political prisoners and announcing that there would be no more restrictions on foreign journalists reporting from Papua. The next day he flew to Merauke to get down […]

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