Liberian civil society and international allies are urgently demanding the RSPO maintain its stop-work order on GVL’s expansion to prevent further deforestation, protect communities’ rights, and ensure accountability for the company’s environmental and human rights violations.
Indonesia's newly-launched state farm company says it will either partner with small farmers, renting them equipment, or run its own farms, adding that it stood to receive 225,000 hectares of land from the agriculture ministry by year-end.
Small-scale farmers like Warno in Karawang district, who rent and maintain ponds from the state, say they fear losing their livelihoods without compensation if the government takes over their farms.
Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman has announced that Indonesia will co-manage 20 thousand hectares of land with Palestine to grow rice and horticultural crops, and send the majority of the produce to the Middle Eastern nation.
U.N. special rapporteurs have raised concerns that Indonesia’s food estate project in Merauke district is displacing Indigenous communities, clearing forests without consent, and using military forces to suppress dissent, threatening more than 50,000 Indigenous people.
Koalisi masyarakat sipil dan masyarakat adat yang terdampak Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke, Papua Selatan, menyanggah tanggapan pemerintah Indonesia terhadap sembilan Pelapor Khusus Perserikatan Bangsa-bangsa (UN Special Procedure Mechanism) ihwal pelanggaran Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) dan dampak lingkungan proyek tersebut.
Sembilan pelapor khusus PBB telah mengirimkan surat kepada pemerintah Indonesia dan perusahaan PT Global Papua Abadi meminta tanggapan dari kedua pihak atas dugaan pelanggaran HAM dan lingkungan hidup dalam pengembangan perkebunan pangan dan energi skala luas melalui Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke. Lebih dari 630.000 ha akan diubah jadi lahan tebu, pengolahan gula dan produksi bioetanol dan lebih dari satu juta hektare akan dijadikan lahan sawah dan perkebunan tanaman lainnya.
Indonesia plans to develop a oil palm plantation in Boven Digoel regency, South Papua province, to strengthen economic resilience and energy independence, the Defence Ministry said.
West Papuans in Merauke claim the Indonesian government is stealing land to build its global "food barn" and feed its population of 280 million.
A holding brasileira J&F paga US$ 2,64 bilhões para a indonésia Paper Excellence, recuperando o controle total da Eldorado Brasil Celulosa e pondo fim há 8 anos da maior briga empresarial do Brasil. Uma das alegações para anulação da compra foi a falta de autorizações do Incra e do Congresso Nacional para assumir terras no país, exigência da Lei de acesso à terras por estrangeiros.
PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara (Persero) akan mengelola 425.000 hektare lahan untuk lumbung pangan (food estate). Agrinas Pangan hanya akan mengelola 225.000 Ha lahan di Kalimantan Selatan, Kalimantan Tengah, Kalimantan Barat dan Sumatera Selatan, serta tambahan 200.000 Ha cetak sawah baru di Wanam, Merauke yang ditargetkan selesai tahun ini.
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.
