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Landgrabbing in Westpapua and local struggles against it (with special focus on MiFEE /Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate)
Tuesday, 21. April 2015, 06:30pm - 08:00pm
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Presentation by Selwyn Moran

 

Selwyn Moran arbeitet in London für die NGO „awasMIFEE!“, die sich kritisch mit dem MIFEE-Projekt der indonesischen Regierung auseinandersetzt (https://awasmifee.potager.org/ ). Hinter dem hochtrabenden Namen „Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate” (MIFEE) verbirgt sich ein Mega-Projekt mit dem Ziel, über eine Million Hektar Land in der Merauke-Region in West-Papua in Plantagen und industrialisierte Landwirtschaft zu verwandeln. Nachdem die indonesische Regierung und Investoren aus dem Agro-Business mit Palmöl-Plantagen bereits wesentlich zur Abholzung von Regenwäldern auf Sumatra und Borneo beigetragen haben, soll nun im südlichen Teil von West-Papua die Produktion von Agrodiesel-Rohstoffen und Lebensmitteln für den Weltmarkt Einzug halten, mit unabsehbaren ökologischen und sozialen Folgen für die einheimische Malind-Bevölkerung.

In Hamburg wird Selwyn Moran aber auch (in Englisch) über den alltäglichen Überlebenskampf der melanesischen Urbevölkerung West-Papuas gegen die indonesische Besatzungsmacht berichten:

West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea, has been the scene of ongoing conflict for over 50 years as the Indonesian military tries to assert its dominance over the Papuan people. Most of the news about West Papua which reaches us in Europe is connected to this conflict - the military opens fire on a demonstration, an activist is imprisoned for treason. But behind the headlines there are a million different struggles as individual Papuans and their communities try to live their everyday lives in this violent society that is so determined to marginalise its indigenous inhabitants. In the cities Papuans struggle to survive when they have been squeezed out of the economy by migrants from elsewhere in Indonesia. In rural villages, people have to contend with oil palm and sugar cane plantations, logging and mining companies, who are owned by Indonesia's elite or foreign multinationals, invariably backed up by police and military. And since the New Guinea rainforests are the third largest tropical forest on the planet, their struggle for cultural survival will have impacts around the globe.

This is the story of some of those local struggles, told using photographs and video made by local Papuan activists.

Introduction: Marion Struck-Garbe

Location Asien Afrika Institut der Universität Hamburg
Raum: 222
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Ost, D-20146 Hamburg
FaLang translation system by Faboba

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