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Logging company shut down in Fakfak after police intimidation and protests.

After protests by the Mbaham Matta indigenous people, lawmakers have reportedly agreed to shut down a logging company’s operations. One of the accusations against the company was that members of the police mobile brigade stationed at the company premises had been intimidating residents. The people wanted to protect their nutmeg trees from being felled by […]

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Bintuni Bay and the Petrochemical Industry

One of Indonesia’s most important industrial nodes is being rapidly developed in West Papua, and key decisions expected soon will give several multinational companies the green light to build petrochemical factories in the Bintuni area. Sumuri District, on the southern shore of Bintuni Bay, was once covered with forest and mangrove, but has over the […]

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Plan similar to MIFEE in FakFak

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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