West Papua’s big palm oil plantations rip-off

EIA International: An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as US$0.65 per hectare for their forestland, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) can reveal. In the new report Clear-Cut Exploitation, EIA and its Indonesian partner Telapak expose woefully low payments by PT Henrison Inti Persada (PT HIP) to marginalised Moi tribe clans for land and timber. Evidence includes a copy of PT HIPs 'contract' with a Moi tribe clan leader, detailing...

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Enclosure: http://www.eia-international.org/clear-cut-exploitation