Indonesia

Indonesia's defense minister has overseen a drive that has brought an area the size of Switzerland under state control, with the central government taking more than 4 million hectares of plantations, mine concessions and processing facilities.

Dalam pengarahan ke kepala daerah se-Papua dan Komite Eksekutif Percepatan Pembangunan Otonomi Khusus Papua (16/12/2025), Prabowo mempertegas “daerah Papua harus ditanam kelapa sawit untuk BBM, tebu dan singkong untuk etanol” semua bertujuan demi swasembada energi. Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat mengidentifikasi ada 94 perusahaan perkebunan kelapa sawit di Papua dengan luas 1.332.032 hektar. Ironisnya, perkebunan sawit dimaksud hanya dikuasai dan dimiliki segelintir korporasi yang dekat dengan penguasa.

A palm oil company owned by Indonesian tycoon Alexander Thaslim has cleared nearly 1,500 hectares of rainforest since it began operating last year in Kapuas Hulu, a landlocked district deep in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province

Around 3.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations have been seized by Indonesian military, with nearly half transferred to nascent state firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, catapulting it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size. A sweeping military-backed takeover that has sent a chill through the world's biggest palm oil producer and its 16-million-strong workforce.

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.