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South Papua’s Reckless Food Estate: From Rice to Palm

Monday, January 26, 2026

The government is expanding the food estate in South Papua. After rice failed to grow, forests will be turned into oil palm plantations.

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A pilot rice field at the rice field creation project in Wanam Village, Ilwayab District, Merauke, South Papua, on December 3, 2025. Tempo/Fachri Hamzah . tempo : 177598688538.

CRITICS who say President Prabowo Subianto does not plan his grand projects are not entirely correct. He plans them well in advance. The problem is that the planning is not academic or grounded in comprehensive study. When he said he would turn Papua’s forests into oil palm plantations, it was a statement he quickly moved to prove.

The site lies within the South Papua food estate, spanning 2.29 million hectares. Even before feasibility stu

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