Oil Palm Grabbing in Kobi Land
Speculators overtook thousands of hectares of customary land in Central Maluku Regency for over a decade now. They are in the center of a conflict between customary tribes and oil palm entreprises.
Mustafa Silalahi
June 29, 2020
TWO-meter tall oil palm trees stand on either side of the plantation road cutting Siliha hamlet, Central Maluku Regency, in Maluku. Located in Lot No. III, the plantation measuring hundreds of hectares in the Seram Utara Timur Kobi subdistrict was originally owned by the Boiratan clan.
The Boiratan family now only have some 400 hectares land. The Boiratans in conjunction with the Nusaina Group, a company owned by Sihar Hamonangan Sitorus, have t
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