[awasMIFEE note: The letter below, from members of the Auyu ethnic group living near the Kia River, is in reaction to pressure to accept a new investor on their land. An Auyu man, vested with some authority from the local government, has been acting as a broker, in this case reportedly pushing people to reject […]
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Three Years of MIFEE
Three essays examining MIFEE in the three years since it was inaugurated, how it is impacting the Marind People and their efforts to oppose plantation development.
-->Three years of MIFEE (part 1): A Growing Movement Against Plantations in West Papua
-->Three Years of MIFEE (part 2): First Villages Feel the Impact as the Plantation Menace Spreads.
-->Three Years of MIFEE (part 3): As the forest is felled where’s the rice?
News From Merauke
- PT Agriprima Cipta Persada clears the Mahuze Kewamese Clan’s Ancestral Forest.
- As oil palm moves in, the Yei people’s forest slowly disappears.
- Stop Military business and respect the rights of indigenous Papuans.
- PT Selaras Inti Semesta continues logging, but isn’t giving work to Zanegi villagers
- The Mahuzes
- Merauke Burns – but were the plantations to blame?
- Oil palm plantation development & forest fires in southern Papua, September-October 2015
- Merauke District Council and Indigenous People’s Association take issue with military working on one-million hectare rice estate
- Agriculture Minister telephones Merauke’s Regency Leader, asking to speed up Food Estate project
- Minister announces 500,000 hectare new sugar plantations in Merauke, Aru, SE Sulawesi.
- Malind Ezam tribal chief: Disappointed by government, wants to give back Kalpataru prize.
- Felda Global Ventures buys Rajawali’s Sugar Operations, 37% of all Plantations.
Around West Papua and Maluku
- Were cement company interests behind change of forest land classification?
- Moi indigenous people block the road in opposition to oil palm
- The commercialisation of ancestral forest
- Freeport: Student solidarity for change.
- Malalilis oh Malalilis, what fate has befallen you?
- Three Clans in Yang Village Oppose new Plantation Companies
- The traps and manipulations that place control in the hands of capital
- The Auyu people strategise to defend their rights.
- Declaration of Indigenous Papuans affected by Forestry, Plantations and Mining.
- The Menara Group* has not carried out its obligations.
- DAP statement on potential mining related conflict in Nifasi, Nabire
- A statement from indigenous people in Boven Digoel
- The voice of Papuan workers: the companies came and our income dropped.
- Grabbing land locally, changing climate globally: the winners and the losers in West Papua’s plantation boom
- Yerisiam Gua Women: Our lives depend on sago
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