With military backing and oligarch allies, Indonesia pushes controversial food estate

Mongabay
Nov 19, 2025, 7:54 am107 pts
The Indonesian administration of President Prabowo Subianto is pushing ahead with a multibillion-dollar plan to build a vast string of plantations in South Papua province that it hopes will secure domestic supplies of rice as well as sugarcane, as the government seeks to ramp up production of biofuel as a means…

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