Medco Cellulose Director, Aradea Z. Arifin:
The tribes people have received plenty

Medco is depending a lot on Papua. For the past five years, this giant company owned by Arifin Panigoro set up a number of subsidiaries to open up thousands of hectares of forest land in the sub-districts of Animha and Kaptel, in Merauke district. Wood chips from Papua are exported to South Korea as fuel for their power generators.

Medco's front line company in Merauke is PT Selaras Inti Semesta and PT Medco Papua Industri Lestari. Selaras controls

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