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View all search resultsWhile international researchers have backed a government decision made in February to halt the development of new oil palm plantations in Papua in favor of “greener” cash crops, activists fear that the shift in policy will have no effect on the lives of poor, indigenous Papuans and may also have little effect on deforestation.
Farmer and civil society organizations and even Indonesia’s antitrust body, the Business Competition Supervisory Commission, have been strengthening their demand for the government to enforce laws that require plantation companies to help develop smallholder estates through commercially viable partnerships.
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