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