Tag Archives: PT Anugerah Rejeki Nusantara

MIFEE during Romanus’s Term of Office: New Permits and Deforestation Threats.

By admin | Published: April 6, 2014

For more than three years (8th January 2011 -March 2014) the Merauke Regency leader Dr. Romanus Mbaraka and his deputy MT Sunaryo S. Sos, have taken charge of Merauke Regency, claiming the ideal of meaningful change through a green development approach and policies – or at least that was the message during their election campaign. […]

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Conflict in Indonesia’s Papua Region

By admin | Published: April 5, 2014

GOHONG, 28 March 2014 (IRIN) – The clearing of forests inhabited by indigenous people in Indonesia’s Papua* Region by agribusinesses is fuelling conflict in the southern Merauke Regency, say campaigners. “Indigenous peoples rely on their land for their survival and therefore any incursion onto their land creates serious problems for any community,” Sophie Grig, a […]

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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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Interview with Lambert Ndiken, a Badelik man in Kampung Baad (Wilmar)

By admin | Published: July 23, 2013

Kampung Baad, Animha district, lies on the banks of the Kumbe River. It is possible to get there by car and motorbike, passing through seven kilometres of natural forest from the Wapeko – Zanegi road. This is still an earth road which turns into mud in the rainy season, slippery and difficult to pass. According […]

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Forestry Ministry rejects Wilmar Group’s Application to Release Land from Forest Status

By admin | Published: July 23, 2013

July 2013, The Indonesian Forestry Ministry has announced its rejection of around eight companies’ applications to release forest land (see: http://lpp.dephut.go.id/media.php?module=izin&sub=listing&izin=4). Three of the companies are subsidiaries of Wilmar Group that are hoping to plant sugar cane: PT Anugerah Rejeki Nusantara (41,421 ha) in Merauke Regency, and PT Royal Agro Sejahtera (39,593 ha) and PT […]

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The People of Baad and Koa villages Reject PT Anugrah Rejeki Nusantara (Wilmar)

By admin | Published: November 2, 2012

[Note to readers in Australia and New Zealand: Wilmar International, the subject of the article below now supplies the majority of the sugar sold in Australia under the brand name CSR sugar and in New Zealand as Chelsea Sugar. The Singapore-based multinational bought the CSR company (renamed Sucrogen) in 2010, at around the same time […]

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