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Around 42,000 hectares of indigenous land around several villages in Ngguti District in Merauke has been clearfelled since Three Years of MIFEE Three essays examining MIFEE in the 2009 by PT Dongin Prabhawa in order to develop an oil palm three years since it was inaugurated, plantation. how it is impacting the Marind People and their efforts to oppose plantation Sacred places and sago groves were included in the area cleared. development. Now 17 clans are reporting the company to the National Human -->Three years of MIFEE (part 1): A Rights Commission in Jakarta. Growing Movement Against Plantations in West Papua An indigenous woman from Merauke, Elizabeth Ndiwaen-Mahuze, told Frans L. Kobun from Tabloid Jubi on Saturday 4th April that PT -->Three Years of MIFEE (part 2): First Villages Feel the Impact as the Dongin Prabhawa had been operational since 2009, developing an Plantation Menace Spreads. oil palm plantation. When the company first appeared, it made many promises, such as to build houses for the community, to -->Three Years of MIFEE (part 3): As provide cars and to pay for children’s education up to university the forest is felled where’s the rice? level, but these promises had yet to materialise. In the meantime, the forest has been cleared, even including the sacred places and News From Merauke sago groves that have been passed down from the ancestors. Statement from Merauke Human Rights Day demonstration. She explained that last November, after a the community from 17 The debate over clans’ land in clans in several villages in Ngguti District had reached an village as forest agreement, she had been entrusted by them to report the matter to become an oil palm the National Human Rights Commission in Jakarta. “Before I went plantation to the Human Rights Commission, I first discussed the issue with Gama Plantation: Building on several NGOs in Jakarta. After that I went to the Human Rights deforestation and conflict Commission to file the report, bring ing all the relevant documents Korindo strikes back against about the forest clearance,” she said. NGO campaign. PT Agriprima Cipta Persada Elizabeth regards the destruction of thousands of hectares of the clears the Mahuze Kewamese Clan’s Ancestral Forest. community’s forest as a form of gross human rights violation. As oil palm moves in, the Yei “What I told the Human Rights Commission should be responded to people’s forest slowly swiftly. We wish and hope that the Human Rights Commission will disappears. come to Merauke and see the state of the community’s forest that Stop Military business and has been clear felled and planted with palm oil”, was her request. respect the rights of indigenous Papuans. When asked about their demands for compensation, Elizabeth PT Selaras Inti Semesta claimed that the community had agreed to demand 30 billion continues logging, but isn’t Rupiah. However, the original payment was only 5 billion and the giving work to Zanegi villagers latest payment, in 2014, only came to 1.7 billion Rupiah. That The Mahuzes means that the remainder, around 23 billion, has yet to be paid. In the meantime, the company operations continue. They have even Merauke Burns – but were the plantations to blame? started to harvest the oil palm and bring it out of the area. She confirmed that a community delegation representing the 17 Oil palm plantation clans had come to the city and directly conveyed this demand. But development & forest fires in southern Papua, September- because the company had not really responded, they have taken the October 2015 step of reporting PT Dongin Prabhawa to the Human Rights Merauke District Council and Commission in Jakarta. Indigenous People’s Association take issue with “We are the customary rights holders and our demands concern the military working on one- land the company has already used, destroying thousands of million hectare rice estate hectares including sacred places, just to develop oil palm plantations. The communities have kept on approaching the Around West Papua company, but the company has not responded”, she said. and Maluku “It’s forest that we can live Every time the Merauke Regency Head meets communities he from, not oil palm” always makes clear that the government will not overly intervene They’re killing the Koroway concerning investment activities by companies. If the community with mercury and precious agrees to it, then investment can go ahead. metals. The Salim Group and land conflicts around West Papua. “I also always press investing companies to pay attention to sacred places and sago forests, and safeguard them. They should not be September 29th 2014, a terrible day for Papua’s cleared as part of investment work. Aside from this, companies forests should prepare land especially for the customary land rights Maranatha Declaration holders to develop their agriculture business,” he said. (concerning permits for extractive industries and Source: Tabloid Jubi http://tabloidjubi.com/2015/04/05/hutan- indigenous Papuans’ rights) dibabat-17-marga-adukan-pt-dongin-prabawa-ke-komnas-ham-ri/ Chronology of violence by Brimob officers working in PT Permata Putera Mandiri’s concession towards indigenous customary landowners in South Sorong ANJ’s response to criticism of its recent forest clearance. Head of the Auyu people: We’re ready to die for out land and ancestral forest If the ANJ group wants a sustainable image, why is it clearing forest and creating conflict?? Rhinoceros beetles and unwanted smallholder schemes: the problems facing villagers in Korindo’s North Maluku plantation. 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