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Opening Rice Fields to Grow Oil Palm

Monday, November 4, 2024

The food estate program, or rice field creation initiative in Central Kalimantan, was neglected and instead converted into oil palm plantations owned by private companies.

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Food Estate land that has been cleared and divided by canals to be converted into oil palm plantations in Tajepan village, Kapuas Murung Sub-district, Kapuas Regency, Central Kalimantan, March 14, 2024. Photo courtesy of Pantau Gambut 2024. tempo : 176596613041.

FOUR years ago, Arman, 37, participated in planting rice on his village land in Tajepan, Kapuas Regency, Central Kalimantan. There are 283.6 hectares of land in Arman’s village included in the food estate program or food barn initiated by the seventh president, Joko Widodo. “We managed to plant rice two or three times, but then we stopped because there were no results,” said Arman, the Chairperson of the Aneka Tarea Farmers

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Ahmad from Kuala Kapuas, Central Kalimantan, with Han Revanda Putra and Haura Hamidah from Jakarta contributed to the writing of this article.

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