Indonesia

Foreign investors to rise agriculture investments in Papua
- TEMPO Interactive
- 20 January 2010
Indonesia's Vice Agriculture Minister Bayu Krishnamurti said, “They are ready to invest, to build farms, factories and industries.”
Appropriation et concentration de droits fonciers à grande échelle-Le cas de l'Indonésie
- AGTER
- 19 January 2010
Accaparement des terres - cas de l'Indonésie - par AGTER
Editorial: Indonesia could become a global food supplier
- Jakarta Globe
- 17 January 2010
Potentially, the government can set aside 12 million hectares for large-scale food cultivation.
Indonesian govt gives green thumb-up to plant Papua ‘food estate’
- Jakarta Globe
- 17 January 2010
The development, under which many residents will be forced to sell their land, has met opposition from locals and non-government organizations. The Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) has said that it will lead to a “land grab” by big businesses at the expense of locals.
Wilmar unit, others to invest $3 bln in Indonesia sugar industry
- Reuters
- 13 January 2010
The firms plan to develop 187,000 hectares of sugar cane plantations and build several sugar factories which will have total capacity to process 76,000 tonnes of cane per day
Liberia: GOL, Golden Veroleum in US$1.6bn negotiation
- Liberian Observer
- 12 January 2010
Indonesian global palm oil giant, Golden Agri-Veroleum will invest more than US$1.6 billion dollars on more than 240,000 hectares of oil palm to boost the country’s oil palm sector.
The Liberian Contribution to the Stir-Fry
- Africa-Asia Confidential
- 31 December 2009
Golden VerOleum plans to acquire 200,00 hectares in south-eastern Liberia. The target areas are Grand Kru, Maryland, River Cess, River Gee and Sinoe counties. The export plans are based on a plantation system in which there are about 10 hectares for each worker.
Rattling the resource chain
- ISN Security Watch
- 22 December 2009
Forecast reports on scarcity predict global actors will move in on dwindling resources. Governments are taking notice, and so should the public, Vivian Fritschi writes for ISN Security Watch.
Food estate menjadikan petani Indonesia sebagai buruh di tanahnya sendiri
- Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
- 17 December 2009
Dalam hal ini, dapat dikatakan masa pengesahan “perampasan tanah” (land grabbing), ketika pengusaha besar lokal dan asing datang atas mandat pemerintah untuk bersaing dengan petani gurem.
Food estate makes Indonesian peasants laborers on their own land
- SPI
- 17 December 2009
The Indonesian Peasants’ Union (SPI) explains how the government's food estate plan benefits companies and threatens farmers.
S Korean investor begins building corn processing plants
- Antara
- 08 December 2009
Gorontalo Vice Governor Gusnar Ismail said the South Korean investor, PT Harim Group, was also planning to build six silos with a combined storage capacity of 6,000 tons to support its corn exporting activity.
Korea’s overseas development backfires
- Korea Times
- 04 December 2009
That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.