Tag Archives: Timika

Kamoro People Resist Freeport Smelter Development on their Ancestral Land

By admin | Published: June 11, 2015

PT Freeport Indonesia is planning to build a smelter in Mimika, in Papua, but this plan has met with opposition from the Kamoro indigenous people because their ancestral land will become even more polluted by the company’s waste. Their environment has already been destroyed by mine tailings from Freeport’s ongoing operation. And the plans are […]

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Well-known missionary asks for oil palm plantation to be stopped.

By admin | Published: October 4, 2014

A well-known religious figure around Mimika Regency in Papua, Father Bert Hogenboorn OFM, has asked the Bupati of Mimika Eltinus Omaleng to put a stop to the large-scale planting of oil palm currently being undertaken by PT Pusaka Agro Lestari because it is destroying forests. “I hope the Bupati of Mimika is really aware of […]

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SKP: An Oil Palm Plantation is Threatening the Kamoro People in Mimika

By admin | Published: February 18, 2014

The Justice and Peace Secretariat (Sekretariat Keadilan dan Perdamaian – SKP) of Timika Diocese in Papua are worried about how the environmental impacts of PT Pusaka Agro Lestari clearing forest for an oil palm plantation could affect the survival of the Kamoro people along the coast of Mimika Regency. The co-ordinator of SKP in the […]

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