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Open Letter to President Joko Widodo – Stop the ‘Investment Creates Jobs’ Programme

By admin | Published: January 28, 2016

To Indonesian President Joko Widodo, State Palace Respectfully, Once upon a time, President Joko Widodo said he would put an end to uncertainty and commit to a sustained transition to create a way forward for an outstanding Indonesia, reaffirming the ideology of the Pancasila and Trisakti principles of Indonesia’s independence movement. Once upon a time […]

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Fifteen cases of Brimob violence in four years in Nabire oil palm plantation.

By admin | Published: December 2, 2015

Jubi 15/111/2015 The presence of a regional Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit in an oil palm plantation managed by PT Nabire Baru (NB) in Yaro sub-district, Nabire Regency, Papua, is proving to be a threat to the Yerisiam Gua indigenous community’s rights. That was the message conveyed by the secretary of the Yerisiam Gua indigenous […]

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West Papua Oil Palm Atlas – The companies behind the plantation explosion.

By admin | Published: April 30, 2015

Indonesia’s oil palm industry is moving east. With large tracts of land increasingly difficult to find in Sumatra and Borneo, plantation companies are now focussing their attention on Indonesia’s eastern frontier: the small islands of the Maluku archipelago and especially the conflict-ridden land of West Papua. In 2005 there were only five oil palm plantations […]

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West Papua Oil Palm Atlas Introduction

By admin | Published: April 30, 2015

Over the course of several months, we have tried to collect as much data as we can about the oil palm industry in Papua. We have done this through a process of internet research, communication with local Papuan NGOs, church organisations, indigenous organisations and other activists, and attempts to contact government and corporate sources. We […]

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Coalition calls on Bupati to revoke PT Nabire Baru’s permit

By admin | Published: February 13, 2015

A group of organisations using the name “Coalition caring for oil palm victims in Nabire” is urging the Bupati of Nabire to revoke PT Nabire Baru’s oil palm plantation permit. This would follow a precedent set by the Bupati of Mimika last December, who revoked PT Pusaka Agro Lestari’s permit. Like PT Nabire Baru, that […]

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Tribal leader SP Hanebora, known for resisting oil palm, dies in Nabire

By admin | Published: February 13, 2015

Simon Petrus Hanebora, leader of the Yerisiam ethnic group in Nabire who campaigned resolutely to oppose an oil palm company and force it to leave Sima and Wami villages, Yaur District, Nabire, passed away on Thursday 12/2/2015 at 3.05 am local time in the Nabire public hospital, where he had been treated for four days. […]

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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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Violence and Intimidation from PT Nabire Baru’s Brimob Guards continues

By admin | Published: August 10, 2014

New reports continue to emerge of aggressive behaviour from Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers who have been stationed as security guards for PT Nabire Baru’s oil palm plantation near the city of Nabire. Here are a few of the most recent stories translated from local bloggers and activists. The first two articles are from a […]

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Investigative Report into Oil Palm in Nabire Regency, Papua

By admin | Published: June 25, 2014

Based on a Field Visit 13th March 2014 by Santon Tekege General Description of PT Nabire Baru in Nabire Several companies’ plans to invest in the oil palm sector in Nabire have met with local opposition. People from the Yerisiam and Wate ethnic groups have staged several peaceful actions in Nabire against one of these […]

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