The Indonesian government is planning massive sugar cane, rice, and palm plantations on Papuan forest land.

For the Indigenous people who live on that land, this push for β€œfood security” is a false promise, writes Laurens Minipko, an Indigenous Papuan activist who lives in Timika.

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β€œPapua continues to be imagined primarily as a strategic zone for national ambition, rather than as a homeland shaped by Indigenous relationships to land and food.” β€” Laurens Minipko.

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