March 26, 2020
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A company owned by a politically connected Indonesian family and an investor from New Zealand has begun clearing rainforest within an area slated to become the world’s largest oil palm plantation. The project will push industrial agriculture deep into the primary rainforests of southern Papua, but has been plagued by allegations of illegality. While the new investors represent a break from those allegations, the government’s failure to investigate them has ongoing consequences.
