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By ADMIN | Published: FEBRUARY 13, 2015 Search A group of organisations using the name “Coalition caring for oil To search, type and hit enter palm victims in Nabire” is urging the Bupati of Nabire to revoke PT Nabire Baru’s oil palm plantation permit. This would follow a precedent set by the Bupati of Mimika last December, who revoked Three Years of MIFEE PT Pusaka Agro Lestari’s permit. Like PT Nabire Baru, that company Three essays examining MIFEE in the had already been operating for a few years, and had cleared three years since it was inaugurated, how it is impacting the Marind People thousands of hectares of forest. and their efforts to oppose plantation development. PT Nabire Baru is possibly the most controversial plantation in Papua. There are many aspects which are seen as problematic, from -->Three years of MIFEE (part 1): A Growing Movement Against Plantations the way the company dealt with customary land rights to the lack of in West Papua an environmental impact asssessment before land clearing started. The plantation has divided the community and there have been a -->Three Years of MIFEE (part 2): First string of violent incidents at the hands of Police Mobile Brigade Villages Feel the Impact as the (Brimob) guards employed to guard the company’s operation. Plantation Menace Spreads.

-->Three Years of MIFEE (part 3): As The organisations involved in the coalition are: Dewan Adat the forest is felled where’s the rice? Meepago, Dewan Lingkunagan Masyarakat Adat Papua,PUSAKA,Green Peace, FIM. Here are their demands: News From Merauke Statement from Merauke In line with law 21 of 2001 concerning the recognition Human Rights Day and protection of the rights of customary communities demonstration. and Law No 39 of 1999 concerning human rights, and in The debate over clans’ land in order to avoid misunderstandings between the Yerisiam Bupul village as forest become an oil palm people and the Nabire Consultative Leaderrship Board plantation (Muspida), together with indigenous communites we Gama Plantation: Building on recommend that: deforestation and conflict Korindo strikes back against 1) The Governor of Papua province should revoke PT NGO campaign. Nabire Baru’s plantation permit (IUP) and arrange a PT Agriprima Cipta Persada meeting between PT Nabire Baru and the Yerisiam clears the Mahuze Kewamese indienous community. If PT Nabire Baru doesn’t want to Clan’s Ancestral Forest. meet these demands then its plantation permit should As oil palm moves in, the Yei be revoked. people’s forest slowly disappears.

2) In the spirit of Papuan special autonomy, PT Nabire Stop Military business and respect the rights of Baru and PT Sariwana Unggal Mandiri must start indigenous Papuans. negotiations with customary landowners, in this case PT Selaras Inti Semesta from the Yerisiam and Mee ethnic groups, to talk about continues logging, but isn’t a MoU with the Yerisiam people and compensation for giving work to Zanegi the wood that has already been extracted. villagers The Mahuzes 3) It must be stated that the transfer of land from Yunus Merauke Burns – but were the Monei to Imam Basrowi which took place on on 15th plantations to blame? October 2008 was invalid because it violated the rights of customary communities, as in customary law it is Oil palm plantation impossible for one person to own land covering development & forest fires in southern Papua, September- thousands of hectares. October 2015 Merauke District Council and Source: Pusaka http://pusaka.or.id/koalisi-peduli-korban- Indigenous People’s sawit-di-nabire-desak-bupati-cabut-ijin-pt-nabire-baru/ Association take issue with military working on one- Papuan News website Majalah Selangkah, which is based in Nabire, million hectare rice estate also filed the following story: Around West Papua and Maluku To protect the people, Nabire’s Bupati urged to shut down oil palm company PT “It’s forest that we can live from, not oil palm” Nabire Baru. They’re killing the Koroway There are indications that an oil Palm company, PT with mercury and precious Nabire Baru, which has taken over the Yerisiam people’s metals. lands, has violated the terms of Law 21 of 2001 The Salim Group and land concerning recognition and protection of the rights of conflicts around West Papua. customary communities as also laid down in Law No 39 September 29th 2014, a terrible day for Papua’s of 1999 concerning human rights. This is believed to forests have caused new conflicts between the indigenous Maranatha Declaration communities, the company and the Nabire (concerning permits for government. extractive industries and indigenous Papuans’ rights) The issue has attracted a response from a member of Chronology of violence by Commission 1 of the Papuan Provincial Legislative Brimob officers working in PT Council, Laurenzus Kadepa. Kadepa supports the Permata Putera Mandiri’s concession towards closure of PT Nabire Baru. indigenous customary landowners in South Sorong He said that the Bupati of Nabire needed to learn from ANJ’s response to criticism of the Bupati of Mimika who recently shut down the PT its recent forest clearance. Pusaka Agro Lestari company which was operating in his Head of the Auyu people: administration’s territory. According to Kadepa, that We’re ready to die for out action was taken by a brave leader who valued human land and ancestral forest rights and the survival of local communities, including If the ANJ group wants a future generations. sustainable image, why is it clearing forest and creating conflict?? Kadepa appealed for the Bupati of Nabire to look at Rhinoceros beetles and Merauke and Keerom regencies, where after local unwanted smallholder governments accepted oil palm companies, negative schemes: the problems facing impacts for local communies followed. There, Kadepa villagers in Korindo’s North continued, a glaring divide had emerged between Maluku plantation. different segments of society. Poumako incident: lethal military violence against indigenous fisherfolk “Dont let that haappen in Nabire,” was Kadepa’s clear defending their livelihood reminder Were cement company interests behind change of “I fear that problems like that in Degeuwo Bayabiru in forest land classification? Kabupaten Paniai will also happen in Nabire Regency , Moi indigenous people block to the Yerisiam people. They are taking wood as it suits the road in opposition to oil them, and recklessly grabbing ancestral land”. Kadepa palm made clear [translator’s note: Degeuwo is an informal The commercialisation of ancestral forest gold-mining area where migrants mostly from Sulawesi have been accompanied by violence and social Freeport: Student solidarity for change. problems into a previously inaccessible forest area].

According to him, the companies have been creating a Archives March 2018 “living hell” for the indigenous people on their own February 2018 ancestral lands. January 2018 December 2017 “Giving permits to corporations to clear land is ‘hell’. It November 2017 will only bring new conflicts to the local indigenous October 2017 people”, Kadepa said. September 2017 August 2017 April 2017 It is hoped that the government will make the people’s March 2017 interests their priority, acting out of humanity and February 2017 thinking about indigenous people’s livelihoods into the January 2017 December 2016 future. “Don’t look at the company’s money, look November 2016 towards the people. Don’t just prioritize private and July 2016 corporate interests, because the impacts will be terrible, June 2016 especially in Nabire which is the main route into several May 2016 regencies in the central mountains”, Kadepa made clear. April 2016 March 2016 Source: Majalah Selangkah February 2016 http://majalahselangkah.com/content/-lindungi-rakyat- January 2016 bupati-nabire-didesak-tutup-perusahaan-sawit-pt-nabire- December 2015 baru November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 October 2013 © OpenStreetMap and Icon contributors; OSM Plugin September 2013 This entry was posted in Around West Papua and tagged Carson Cumberbatch, PT August 2013 Nabire Baru, PT Sariwana Unggal Mandiri. Bookmark the permalink. Comments July 2013 are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL. June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 « Tribal leader SP Hanebora, known for Local People demonstrate at PT ANJ March 2013 resisting oil palm, dies in Nabire Agri’s offices. » February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012

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