Deforestation in Food Estate and Mining Areas
In a decade of Jokowi’s administration, deforestation reached 4.37 million hectares. This is partly attributed to national strategic projects in the food and energy sectors.
Avit Hidayat
July 29, 2024
THREE days before President Joko Widodo’s visit to the Global Papua Abadi plantation in Ngguti Bob and Sermayam Indah villages, Merauke Regency, South Papua, heavy machinery was still at work. Six tractors were moving back and forth, tilling the soil on the 350-hectare plot where President Jokowi would plant the first sugarcane for the national strategic project (PSN) involving sugarcane plantations, a sugar factory, and bioethanol producti
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