West Papua’s big palm oil plantations rip-off

Just 65c a hectare for landowners while major investors cash in  
London: 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 …

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