Tag Archives: Boven Digoel

The Government is urged to swiftly implement the Palm Oil Moratorium in Papua.

By admin | Published: January 29, 2019

Last November, the head of the Awyu ethnic group in Boven Digoel Regency, Egidius Pius Suam, sent a letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo, with copies also sent to several ministries, the Governor of Papua Province, Boven Digoel’s Bupati and leaders of civil society organisations in Papua and Jakarta. The letter detailed the Awyu indigenous […]

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Head of the Auyu people: We’re ready to die for out land and ancestral forest

By admin | Published: October 31, 2017

An oil palm company named PT Indo Asiana Lestari has been trying to negotiate with the Auyu people living in several villages in Mandobo and Fofi sub-districts of Boven Digoel, including Ampera, Ikisi, Navini and Yare villages. Frengky Hendrikus Woro, a resident of Yare village, explained to Okto Waken of the Justice and Peace Secretariat […]

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The voice of Papuan workers: the companies came and our income dropped.

By admin | Published: November 19, 2016

When the oil palm plantation companies first arrive in the villages they promise jobs for indigenous Papuans, an effort to implant dreams of improved economic well-being and higher incomes. Once work starts however, the promises aren’t followed through and the imagined changes never come about. Meanwhile, the land and forest which used to provide the […]

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#savearu sees off Menara Group, time to #savebovendigoel

By admin | Published: May 21, 2014

The story may be over for the Menara Group in Aru, now it’s time to look at Boven Digoel. There another mega-plantation plan is opening the door to the Malaysian timber barons, who are using the pretext of oil palm plantations to get their hands on 400,000 hectares of primary forest. The people of the […]

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Forum to Care for Papua’s Natural Resources Opposes ConocoPhillips Seismic Testing in Boven Digoel

By admin | Published: September 5, 2013

It is not just plantations – oil and gas companies are also threatening to turn Southern West Papua into an industrial landscape. ConocoPhillips is planning to restart exploration (seismic testing) in the Warim block in the near future, a remote forest area mostly located in Boven Digoel regency, several hundred kilometres inland from Merauke. The […]

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Oil Palm threat to the Auyu People’s Forest

By admin | Published: May 23, 2013

[awasMIFEE note: This report about a company which is trying to establish a palm oil plantation in Boven Digoel Regency, which neighbours Merauke, was written by a Catholic Priest from the area and published in Indonesian by suarapapua.com. While we do not currently have information on this company, PT Menara Group, or their exact plans […]

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