Elite Agro LLC, perusahaan sektor pertanian asal Uni Emirat Arab (UEA), mulai menjajaki kerja sama bidang pertanian food estate atau lumbung pangan di Kalimantan Tengah dengan luas lahan 100 ribu hektare.
Indonesia has started developing a food estate to grow rice, corn and other crops. The project is expected to cover an area of 770,000 hectares (1,903,000 acres), or more than ten times the size of Singapore.
Lebih dari 50 warga Suku Awyu melakukan aksi unjuk rasa di Kantor DPRD Boven Digoel dan Kantor Bupati Boven Digoel menuntut pemerintah mencabut izin perkebunan kelapa sawit yang telah beroperasi dan sedang merencanakan perluasan lahan perkebunan di wilayah adat Suku Awyu.
Indonesia's Minister of State-Owned Enterprises said that the aim was to boost food security in the country and improve the quality of domestically grown products to give them export value, with a view to exporting to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
Digoel Agri Group mulai beroperasi dalam mega proyek yang diperebutkan investor dari seluruh dunia. Perusahaan-perusahaan yang dimiliki keluarga elit politik di Indonesia dan investor dari Selandia Baru mulai menebangi hutan di kawasan yang disebut-sebut akan jadi perkebunan terbesar di dunia.
Ketua Komunitas Adat Laman Kinipan Effendi Buhing ditangkap polisi Polda Kalimantan Tengah (Kalteng), Rabu (26/8) siang. Penangkapan ini diduga terkait dengan konflik lahan antara masyarakat adat tersebut dengan sebuah perusahaan sawit.
More than 100 farmers gathered outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday, having walked about 1,800 km (1,118 miles) from the island of Sumatra to protest against forced evictions from long-running land conflict with a state-owned plantation company, PT Perkebunan Nusantara II (PTPN II).
Elite Agro, a producer and distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will invest in Subang, West Java, Indonesia.
Perusahaan produsen dan distributor buah dan sayur segar asal Abu Dhabi Uni Emirat Arab Elite Agro akan berinvestasi di Indonesia, tepatnya di Subang, Jawa Barat.
The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a plan to grow crops on a Puerto Rico-sized area of peatlands, despite criticism from experts and a history of similar failed projects.
Some 170 farmers have walked 1,812 kilometers from their hometown in North Sumatra, Indonesia to the capital city to demand to the President to settle a land dispute with state-owned plantation company that evicted them from their farmland.
Komisi Nasional HAM Perwakilan Papua menyimpulkan ada tindakan kekerasan berlebihan dalam kasus kematian Marius Betera, seorang petani di kawasan perkebunan sawit milik Korindo Group di Kabupaten Boven Digul, Provinsi Papua. Marius meninggal pada 16 Mei lalu, setelah bertikai dengan seorang anggota polisi, yang bertugas di kawasan perusahaan itu.
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