Soldiers should not be allowed to halt the screening of a film. People need to be given the opportunity to watch it and judge for themselves.

A number of civil society organizations collaborated to produce Pig Feast, a documentary film depicting deforestation, militarism, and the resistance of Indigenous Papuan communities against the government’s food estate project. Soldiers, officials, and academics moved to block screenings of the film in various regions. There were indications of coordinated orders to censor it.

With the support of the global community, the people of Raja Ampat are trying to save the zebra shark from the threat of extinction.

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

The government is expanding the food estate project in South Papua. Without governance, environmental destruction is inevitable.

Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman

Parts of Sumatra were hit by floods resulting from the arbitrary granting of permits to clear forests. Now Papua is under threat.

A youth movement of the Knasaimos indigenous community in South Sorong, Southwest Papua, defends their ancestral forests, standing up to companies and illegal loggers.

Built on the principle of diversity since aiding refugees of past unrest, Nurul Huda Mosque offers social services indiscriminately to all residents, regardless of religious background.

The people of the Marind-Anim traditional community are against a food estate project to create rice fields and sugar cane plantations in Merauke. They are speaking out in Papua and Jakarta.

National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Chair Atnike Nova Sigiro on human rights enforcement in the Prabowo Subianto era.

The kidnapping of pilot Phillip Mehrtens was ended through negotiation. This is a lesson for the Prabowo administration about how to resolve the Papua conflict.

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.

Chair of the Presidium of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference (KWI) Monsignor Antonius Subianto Bunjamin spoke about the preparations for Pope Francis’ visit.

The Papua conflict continues to rage during Jokowi’s administration. The fate of the refugees is neglected.

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.