Food estate menjadikan petani Indonesia sebagai buruh di tanahnya sendiri
    Dalam hal ini, dapat dikatakan masa pengesahan “perampasan tanah” (land grabbing), ketika pengusaha besar lokal dan asing datang atas mandat pemerintah untuk bersaing dengan petani gurem.
    • Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
    • 17 December 2009
    Food estate makes Indonesian peasants laborers on their own land
    The Indonesian Peasants’ Union (SPI) explains how the government's food estate plan benefits companies and threatens farmers.
    • SPI
    • 17 December 2009
    S Korean investor begins building corn processing plants
    Gorontalo Vice Governor Gusnar Ismail said the South Korean investor, PT Harim Group, was also planning to build six silos with a combined storage capacity of 6,000 tons to support its corn exporting activity.
    • Antara
    • 08 December 2009
    Korea’s overseas development backfires
    That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.
    • Korea Times
    • 04 December 2009
    Food project to attract big investment
    A planned large-scale commercial farming or food estate project in Merauke, Papua, is expected to trigger fresh investment of up to US$5.3 billion in the area in the next five years.
    • Jakarta Post
    • 03 December 2009
    Program food estate bukan solusi mendongkrak produksi padi nasional
    Henry Saragih, Ketua Umum Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) menyesalkan langkah yang diambil pemerintah untuk mendongkrak produksi padi nasional melalui program food estate. Pengembangan food estate justru bertentangan dengan upaya pemerintah mendorong ekonomi kerakyatan, khususnya ekonomi kaum tani.
    • Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
    • 24 November 2009
    Food Estate is Not a Solution to Increase National Rice Production
    The food estate program will shift the character of Indonesian agriculture from family farming to corporate based food and agriculture production and weaken national food sovereignty.
    • Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
    • 24 November 2009
    Korea seeks cheap land overseas to grow food
    Local provincial governments are working hard to develop farmland in other countries -- Russia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Paraguay, Uruguay -- because it’s cheaper than relying on imports
    • Joong Ang Daily
    • 16 November 2009
    Up for grabs: Deforestation and exploitation in Papua’s plantations boom
    The planned expansion of plantations in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia should be immediately suspended and reviewed amid concerns over massive deforestation and widespread exploitation of local communities, environmentalists warned today.
    • EIA
    • 11 November 2009
    Indonesia says land acquisition stalls Binladin rice investment
    The Saudi Binladin Group's $4.3 billion planned investment in Papua, east Indonesia, to develop rice fields has stalled because of problems acquiring land from local people.
    • Reuters
    • 26 October 2009
    Au Timor, les investissements contre l'autosubsistance
    Un accord entre le gouvernement et une entreprise indonésienne, la GTLeste Biotech, est en gestation depuis le mois de mars. Il est question d'un bail de location – renouvelable – de cinquante ans pour 100 000 hectares de terre destinés à la production de canne à sucre.
    • Le Courrier
    • 13 October 2009
    K S Oils acquires more land in Indonesia
    K S Oils, one of India’s leading integrated edible oil food companies Wednesday announced further acquisition of 53,000 acres of land for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. This brings the company’s land bank in Indonesia to 1,38,000 acres [56,000 ha], the largest owned by any Indian company.
    • Commodity Online
    • 07 October 2009

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