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Merauke District Council and Indigenous People’s Association take issue with military working on one-million hectare rice estate

By admin | Published: November 13, 2015

A Member of Merauke Regency District Legislative Council, Hendrikus Hengky Ndiken, has expressed his complaints about the 1.2 million hectare rice estate recently announced by the Indonesian President Joko Widodo. He was disappointed by how land conversion work seemed to have been taken over by the military. He said that local entrepreneurs who have joined […]

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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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Jokowi relaunches MIFEE, wants 1.2 million hectares of new ricefields within 3 years!

By admin | Published: May 15, 2015

Indonesian President Joko Widodo made his second presidential visit to Papua on 9th and 10th May. In Jayapura he made two small but welcome gestures, pardoning five long-term political prisoners and announcing that there would be no more restrictions on foreign journalists reporting from Papua. The next day he flew to Merauke to get down […]

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PT Medco Papua to clear 2000 hectares for rice cultivation

By admin | Published: October 19, 2014

PT Medco Papua will start to plant rice on 2000 hectares of land around several villages in Kurik District, Merauke. The company is currently making all necessary preparations including land-clearing and producing seedlings. The head of Kurik District, Stefanus Kagoup said to tabloidjubi.com on Friday 17th October that the company had already paid ‘tali asih’ […]

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