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The Abandoned Rice-Field Project in South Papua

Monday, January 26, 2026

Thousands of hectares of forest from Wanam to Nakias in South Papua have been cleared for a National Strategic Project aimed at food self-sufficiency. The pilot rice fields failed to take off.

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Construction of a support road for rice field creation on the border of Wanam and Nakias villages in Merauke, South Papua, December 2, 2025. Tempo/Avit Hidayat. tempo : 177656682277.

ITS official name is a pilot field, or demonstration plot (demplot). But the four rice fields the government built a year ago in Wanam village, Ilwayab District, Merauke Regency, South Papua, look more like a scrapyard. On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, dozens of empty shipping containers lined the entrance to the site. An excavator stood idle nearby, along with a forklift, a row of broken heavy trucks, and abandoned plowing machines.

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Caesar Akbar, Fachri Hamzah, and M. Faiz Zaki contributed to the writing of this article.

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