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Minister announces 500,000 hectare new sugar plantations in Merauke, Aru, SE Sulawesi.

By admin | Published: June 23, 2015

Officials in Jakarta can’t seem to stop making pronouncements promising vast new agricultural expansion along the eastern frontier of the Indonesian state. In May President Joko Widodo announced 1.2 million hectares of rice fields to be developed in three years in the Merauke area of West Papua. Now his agricultural minister, Amran Sulaiman, has apparently […]

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People of Woboyu Traumatised by Gunshots / Continuing Opposition to Plantations.

By admin | Published: September 2, 2013

On 29th September, Romanus Mbaraka, the Bupati or Regency Leader of Merauke, travelled to Kampung Wambi in Okaba District, to try to convince local people that plantation development did not necessarily have to be a bad thing. Hundreds of people from surrounding villages came to hear him speak. A local journalist with tabloidjubi.com also travelled […]

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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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Sugar company Rajawali is destroying forest without permission in Malind district.

By admin | Published: April 18, 2013

Merauke 15 April 2013, Without the knowledge or consent of local landowners in Kampung Onggari, Malind district, Merauke, two subsidiaries of the Rajawali Group, PT Karya Bumi Papua and PT Cenderawasi Jaya Mandiri, are destroying ancestral forest, evicting areas of importance and swamps belonging to the people. It is believed that this has been occurring […]

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