More MIFEE Info

Extract from 'Big Plans for Papua', DTE 91-92, May 2012

More MIFEE info

An Agribusiness Attack in West Papua: Unravelling the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate is a new independent report on MIFEE online at: http://awasmifee.potager.org.

Ironic Survival is a film about the MIFEE project by ‘Papuan Voices’, an empowerment and film production project. See http://www.engagemedia.org/papuanvoices.

A new “No to MIFEE” facebook campaign page has been set up at http://www.facebook.com/pages/NO-to-MIFEE/369111889765905.

SORAK: (Suara Orang Kampung - Voice of Villagers) is a forum for the villagers of southern Papua (Merauke, Mappi, and Boven Digul areas) to talk directly about their problems and aspirations, including plantation developments. English and Indonesian versions. http://blog.insist.or.id/sorak/archives/1854.

FPP, AMAN, Sawit Watch and other groups have sent a follow-up request to the UN Committee on the Elimination or Racial Discrimination (CERD) on the MIFEE case. See February 2012 letter at http://www.forestpeoples.org/.

DTE’s new MIFEE web-page is at http://www.downtoearth-indonesia.org/campaign/mifee.