Broken Pacts in Palm Land

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Local landowners in Central Maluku claimed that DPR member Sihar Sitorus had broken his agreement over the profit sharing of his palm plantation. They suspect Sihar of making changes to the contract unilaterally. Locals had hoped to get Rp2 million each month for every hectare of land they entrusted to Sihar, but in reality they only get Rp70,000.

Representatives of indigenous communities from Kobi, Kabauhari, Maneo, and Siliha block the road leading to Nusaina Agro Huaulu Manise’s oil palm factory in Siliha hamlet, Central Maluku Regency, Maluku, end of last April./Syahdan Fabanyo. tempo : 173483267011.

AT a villager’s home in Kobi Mukti, Central Maluku in Maluku Province, about 100 people ended a one-hour discussion on Wenesday morning at the end of April. They came up with a decision to close the road going to the site of plantation company Nusaina Agro Huaulu Manise. The firm is owned by Sihar Hamonangan Sitorus, member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

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