Prabowo’s Plan for Palm Oil Self-Sufficiency
The government is expanding the National Strategic Project for food self-sufficiency in South Papua to make way for oil palm plantations. The move is marked by land disputes tied to an earlier project.
Avit Hidayat
January 26, 2026
AFTER seeing digital documents shown by Tempo, Albertus Tenggare and Ambrosius Tenggare immediately recalled the increasingly frequent roar they had heard in recent months from the skies above Boven Digoel Regency, South Papua. “No wonder helicopters keep flying overhead,” Albertus said.
That Friday afternoon, November 28, 2025, Albertus and Ambrosius went to check on Wataron, their clan’s customary forest, located on the
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