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September 29th 2014, a terrible day for Papua’s forests

By admin | Published: January 7, 2018

In September 2014, in his last month in the role before handing over to the new administration, former forestry minister Zulkifli Hasan carelessly condemned hundreds of thousands of hectares of Papuan forest to development by logging and plantation industries. Joko Widodo had won the Indonesian presidential rlection on 9th July 2014, and Zulkifli Hasan’s National […]

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Korindo strikes back against NGO campaign.

By admin | Published: August 28, 2017

The outlook for the plantation industry in Papua has started to show signs of change recently, both because of a sustainability drive in the palm oil supply chain, which has forced many companies to suspend deforestation plans, and better-informed indigenous communities increasingly opposing companies’ attempts to acquire their land. Not all companies are taking these […]

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