The food estate projects in Merauke are at risk of failure. There are suspicions about the way the projects are shared out.

The food estate project in Merauke has the potential to repeat the failures of MIFEE in the past. Developing large-scale agriculture is challenging.

The clearing of forests for the food estate project does not yet have an environmental impact assessment. It will be issued later.

Two food estate projects are simultaneously being launched, targeting 2.29 million hectares of forest and land in Merauke. There are intrigues involving Prabowo and Jokowi. This report is part of a collaborative coverage and research initiative by Tempo, the Pusaka Bentala Rakyat Foundation, and Trend Asia.

The rice paddy development program will sacrifice 1.02 million hectares of customary land in Merauke. It will also annihilate biodiversity.

Preparing 2.9 million hectares of land under the food estate program in Merauke, South Papua, the government aims to achieve rice and sugar self-sufficiency within three to four years. Mirroring the previous failed food estate initiative.

Deputy VI for Regional Development and Spatial Planning Coordination at the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Susiwijono Moegiarso, explains the development of national strategic projects, their economic benefits and impact on the environment.

In a decade of Jokowi’s administration, deforestation reached 4.37 million hectares. This is partly attributed to national strategic projects in the food and energy sectors.

Letters on disappointing BCA Life services and Bung Karno’s invocation for spirit of nationalism

The PDI-P Secretary-General suddenly pronounced the food estate project an environmental crime purely in the electoral interest.

News summary, from the dismissal on Budiman Sudjatmiko to Food Estate.

Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman

Summary of news from the problematic food estate project, to the dismissal of Raden Brotoseno by the National Police Headquarters.

The voracious migratory locust is raging through the whole regency of Sumba Island. A balanced ecosystem is key to controlling and preventing this plague.

The food estate program in Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, cuts into the kemenyan forest indigenous land. The yield fell short of target.

President Joko Widodo’s food estate project has the potential to trigger an ecological disaster. It is against the law and is not transparent.

Agro Industri Nasional or Agrinas denies being the implementer of the defense ministry’s food estate project. But the company’s proposal submitted to South Korea exposes its roles in the project.

An interview with the Presidential Chief of Staff Gen. (ret) Moeldoko whose company, M-Tani, is working on a food estate project in Central Kalimantan. Is there a conflict of interest?

An interview with Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo on the food estate project. The agriculture ministry is focused on planting commodities besides cassava, which is the defense ministry’s project.

The food estate at Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatera, failed to reach its production target. The community is not familiar with the commodity.