West Papua: West Papua’s Big Palm Oil Plantations Rip-Off

West Papua: West Papua’s Big Palm Oil Plantations Rip-Off   Just 65c a hectare for landowners while major investors cash in   An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as US$0.65 per hectare for their forestland, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) can reveal.   In the new report Clear-Cut Exploitation, EIA and its Indonesian partner Telapak expose woefully low payments by PT Henrison Inti Persada (PT...

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