Tag Archives: Medco

Plan similar to MIFEE in FakFak

By admin | Published: January 29, 2014

Fakfak (on the Southern Coast of West Papua Province), has plans to start a program to develop integrated agribusiness similar to MIFEE in Merauke. It turns out that the program’s “designer”, (Ir. Omah Laduani Ladamay, MSi) the current head of the Fakfak Agriculture Service, is a former member of the MIFEE team in Merauke. The […]

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PT Selaras Inti Semesta has cleared important sites for the Malind People

By admin | Published: December 20, 2013

The Malind people possess traditional wisdom to protect sites they consider important. These important sites have historical, social, cultural and economic value, such as routes travelled by their ancestors, sacred relics, ancestral burial sites, historic villages and sago groves. In a participative mapping exercise in Kampung Wayau, District Animha, Merauke on 21/10/2013, the head of […]

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Three Years of MIFEE (part 2): First Villages Feel the Impact as the Plantation Menace Spreads.

By admin | Published: October 23, 2013

The forest villages of Merauke are as remote as it is possible to imagine in the twenty-first century. Nowhere in Indonesia is further from Jakarta – 3700 kilometres as the crow flies. 662 km of forest and a high mountain range separate Merauke from the Papuan capital, Jayapura, which is also the focus of most […]

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Companies are Still not Fulfilling their Promises to Hire Workers Locally.

By admin | Published: October 5, 2013

(Merauke, Sept 2013) Compaines operating within the framework of MIFEE, the large-scale food and energy mega-project in Merauke, are still not meeting their commitments to recruit local people to their work force. However, when negotiating to use customary land, companies often promise to use local labour. In Kampung Zanegi, where PT Selaras Inti Semesta (SIS […]

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Press Release – Starvation and poverty in Indonesia: civil society organisations appeal for suspension of MIFEE project in Papua pending redress for local communities

By admin | Published: September 2, 2013

[awasMIFEE note: this press release is concerned with the same submission we reported on on July 26th. Four organisations have issued their press release now to coincide with the end of the 83rd Session of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination]  29 August, 2013 From Forest People’s Programme, Down To Earth, […]

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Malind Women’s views about Companies Operating in Kampung Baad, Animha District, Merauke.

By admin | Published: August 5, 2013

Since 2011, three sugar cane companies have been going around Kampung Baad, Animha district and Kampung Tambat, Tanah Miring district, talking about their plans and trying to win over community leaders. The companies involved are PT Anugerah Rejeki Nusantara (ARN) owned by the Wilmar International Group, and PT Papua Daya Bio Energy and PT Tebu […]

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Changes to the Moratorium Map and Medco’s Sugar Plans

By admin | Published: August 5, 2013

The forestry ministry recently released decision (SK) 2796 of 2013, concerning the Indicative Map for the Moratorium on New Forest Use Licences (PIPIB). This provision sets out the fourth revision of Indonesia’s moratorium map. In various parts of Merauke Regency, Papua Province, there have been several important changes to the moratorium map since the original […]

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Dying from Hunger in the World’s Rice Barn as PT Medco depletes Kampung Zanegi’s Forest

By admin | Published: June 25, 2013

21/06/2013 When the MIFEE food and energy development project was launched in 2010, it was imagined that it would turn Merauke into Indonesia’s national ‘rice barn’ which could even export food around the world with all its billions of hungry mouths. Between 2007 and the present day, around 80 Indonesian and foreign companies have been […]

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Land grabbing in a forgotten country – MIFEE-affected villager visits Netherlands

By admin | Published: February 17, 2013

By Selma Zijlstra – 11 February 2013‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.  Papuans themselves however are not reaping the benefits from this economic activity. Instead, they see their forests, known as the ‘lungs of […]

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Destroying Local Livelihoods With Mifee

By admin | Published: January 20, 2013

At the launch of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project in 2010, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that the agribusinesses involved would “feed Indonesia, then feed the world.” But the Malind Anim people of Merauke, Papua, say they are worried that the impacts of the project known as Mifee will prevent them from […]

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