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

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