Tag Archives: MIFEE

Agriculture Minister telephones Merauke’s Regency Leader, asking to speed up Food Estate project

By admin | Published: August 14, 2015

Speaking to journalists in Jakarta, the Agriculture Minister has admitted that the plan which President Jokowi announced in May this year, to develop 250,000 hectares of rice estate each semester, is not progressing as fast as the government had hoped. The reason is the difficulty in getting permission to use indigenous land. Given that the […]

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Government still looking to Merauke for industrial agriculture development.

By admin | Published: April 17, 2015

Since the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate was launched in West Papua in August 2010, it has had the result of clearing the way for oil palm and sugar-cane plantations, but has failed to meet its stated aim to develop large-scale production of certain key food crops, notably rice. Now there are signs that […]

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MIFEE and other top-down developments in Papua will continue under Jokowi administration.

By admin | Published: February 6, 2015

Indonesian media have recently been widely reporting the head of Indonesia’s Investment Coodinating Board, Franky Sibarani, who stated his commitment to support stalled investment projects in Papua. He referred to a number of unspecified projects in the plantation, cement, fisheries and petrochemical sectors, including the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate, the agribusiness megaproject planned […]

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Komnas HAM’s National Inquiry Papua Region: President Should Re-examine MIFEE Program

By admin | Published: December 4, 2014

Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission held the testimonial hearing of its National Inquiry for the Papua region in the Law and Human Rights Ministry Regional Office from 26th-28th November 2014. The hearing investigated five cases: PTPN II’s oil palm plantation in Arso, Keerom Regency, PT Nabire Baru and PT Sariwana Unggal Mandiri’s oil palm plantation […]

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