Monthly Archives: January 2014

Plan similar to MIFEE in FakFak

By admin | Published: January 29, 2014

Fakfak (on the Southern Coast of West Papua Province), has plans to start a program to develop integrated agribusiness similar to MIFEE in Merauke. It turns out that the program’s “designer”, (Ir. Omah Laduani Ladamay, MSi) the current head of the Fakfak Agriculture Service, is a former member of the MIFEE team in Merauke. The […]

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Communion of Churches in Indonesia calls for MIFEE to be Stopped!

By admin | Published: January 21, 2014

The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (Pesekutuan Gereja-Gereja Indonesia or PGI) has asked the Indonesian Government to call a halt to the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) project, because it will mean the indigenous Marind people’s local wisdom will be lost. According to Fr. Gomar Gultom, the PGI’s General Secretary, this request is […]

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Indigenous People Demand Companies Give Work to Papuans.

By admin | Published: January 14, 2014

Four companies in Muting and Ulilin Districts of Merauke Regency have been asked to give work to indigenous Papuans, and especially holders of customary rights over the land the companies are using. The four companies that are operating in the two districts are PT Bio Inti Agrindo, PT Cahaya Bone Lestari, PT Agrinusa Cipta Persada […]

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Update: Chronology of Okaba Death in Police Custody

By admin | Published: January 14, 2014

Further details of the police brutality that resulted in the death of Roni, a man from Sanggase Village, Merauke Regency, after he was arrested on New Year’s Eve: 31st December (evening) The victim and residents of Sanggase were holding a New Year’s Eve party with music and alcohol, when an alcohol-influenced quarrel broke out between […]

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Police and Company Security Guard beat a man to Death while in Police Detention.

By admin | Published: January 5, 2014

A man was beaten to death while in police detention by a local police officer and a man working for the Astra Group as head of security. The assault took place on New Year’s Eve in Okaba near Merauke. The Astra Group has plans for a massive sugar cane plantation which has met with opposition […]

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