Tag Archives: Zanegi

PT Selaras Inti Semesta continues logging, but isn’t giving work to Zanegi villagers

By admin | Published: March 25, 2016

[awasMIFEE note: PT Selaras Inti Semesta is a subsidiary of the Medco Group, which is also developing industrialised rice production on the Merauke area] Merauke, Jubi – the community in Zanegi village, Malind District has expressed their disappointment in a company which has been felling the trees in their forest and processing the wood, PT […]

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PT Selaras Inti Semesta has cleared important sites for the Malind People

By admin | Published: December 20, 2013

The Malind people possess traditional wisdom to protect sites they consider important. These important sites have historical, social, cultural and economic value, such as routes travelled by their ancestors, sacred relics, ancestral burial sites, historic villages and sago groves. In a participative mapping exercise in Kampung Wayau, District Animha, Merauke on 21/10/2013, the head of […]

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Three Years of MIFEE (part 2): First Villages Feel the Impact as the Plantation Menace Spreads.

By admin | Published: October 23, 2013

The forest villages of Merauke are as remote as it is possible to imagine in the twenty-first century. Nowhere in Indonesia is further from Jakarta – 3700 kilometres as the crow flies. 662 km of forest and a high mountain range separate Merauke from the Papuan capital, Jayapura, which is also the focus of most […]

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NGOs address MIFEE on World Food Day, and publish investigation about Wilmar

By admin | Published: October 18, 2013

The 16th of October was World Food Day, and two groupings of Indonesian and international organisations have used the opportunity to publish reports or press releases on MIFEE. The first of the two articles below, from Forest People’s Programme together with Sawit Watch and Pusaka, launches a report “A sweetness like unto death”, which is […]

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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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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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Dying from Hunger in the World’s Rice Barn as PT Medco depletes Kampung Zanegi’s Forest

By admin | Published: June 25, 2013

21/06/2013 When the MIFEE food and energy development project was launched in 2010, it was imagined that it would turn Merauke into Indonesia’s national ‘rice barn’ which could even export food around the world with all its billions of hungry mouths. Between 2007 and the present day, around 80 Indonesian and foreign companies have been […]

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Destroying Local Livelihoods With Mifee

By admin | Published: January 20, 2013

At the launch of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project in 2010, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that the agribusinesses involved would “feed Indonesia, then feed the world.” But the Malind Anim people of Merauke, Papua, say they are worried that the impacts of the project known as Mifee will prevent them from […]

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PT Selaras Inti Semesta’s Unkept Promises to Senegi Villagers.

By admin | Published: January 8, 2013

The leader of the Merauke District Legislative Council, Leonardus Mahuze says that PT Selaras Inti Semesta, a company logging forest owned by the people of Senegi village in Okaba district, has not fulfilled the promises it made when it started its operations there. That was how Leo described the situation to tabloidjubi.com, on Thursday (3/1).He […]

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