Military-backed plantation project in Indonesian Papua triggers rights concerns

Mongabay
Apr 29, 2025, 11:29 pm200 ptsTop
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s national human rights commission has found a slew of legal and rights violations in a government-backed project to establish large-scale plantations in the eastern region of Papua. The so-called food estate project, categorized by the government as being of strategic national…

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