Tag Archives: PT Cenderawasih Jaya Mandiri

Merauke Burns – but were the plantations to blame?

By admin | Published: November 20, 2015

The rains have finally arrived, putting out the forest fires that raged across Indonesia through the last few months. Forest burning takes place every dry season, but this year an especially strong El Nino phenomenon meant that the dry season was longer and dryer, and the fires were especially bad. The worst crises were, as […]

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Felda Global Ventures buys Rajawali’s Sugar Operations, 37% of all Plantations.

By admin | Published: June 18, 2015

Malaysian company Felda Global Ventures has finalised a deal to buy 37% of PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk, the plantation company in which the Rajawali Group held the controlling stake. The company was created last year after Rajawali’s reverse takeover of BW Plantations. It’s a huge deal. Felda Global Ventures claims to be the world’s […]

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Not planting, PT Cendrawasih Jaya Mandiri threatened with expulsion.

By admin | Published: October 1, 2014

PT Cenderawasih Jaya Mandiri, a sugar-cane company operating in Merauke Regency has been threatened with losing their operational area. The government has warned the company because it is not fully operational in line with the permits it has received. The head of the forestry and plantation agency in Merauke, Efendi Kanan, revealed on Tuesday (23/9) […]

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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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Harvesting Swamp Fish in Domande

By admin | Published: September 27, 2013

(Sept 2013) At the moment it is dry season across the whole Merauke area, there has been no rain for over a month and the sun beats down intensely in the daytime. On the other hand, the nights are cool. Most small streams in the forest are dry. The swamps have become no more than […]

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Sugar Company Rajawali’s Sweet Promises

By admin | Published: December 19, 2012

13/12/2012 The Malind indigenous people from Domande and Kaiburse villages are continuing to raise complaints and accusations against two subsidiaries of the Rajawali Group, PT Karyabumi Papua and PT Cenderawasih Jaya Mandiri, which are currently developing sugar cane plantations in Malind and Kurik districts, Merauke, West Papua. The company has already been operating in Domande […]

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