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Accepted Paper:
The role of FPIC amidst a massive planned food estate program in Indonesia
Ida Yamaswari
(University of Sussex)
Paper short abstract:
This paper explores the viewpoint of to what extent FPIC has been exercised within the initial stage of a massive Food Estate Program in Indonesia and whether it has undermined or strengthened state-corporate power.
Paper long abstract:
Palm oil is one of the most polarising commodities in terms of its environmental and economic impacts. Despite having a high productivity rate, it is traditionally associated with industrial agriculture with massive land grabs, displacement and deforestation implications.
Indonesia is one of the world's leading producers of Crude Palm Oil (CPO). Palm oil produced from the provinces of Papua and West Papua will be the key focus of this study. The region of Papua enjoys a rainforest size of 33.8 million hectares (83.5 million acres), an area the size of Florida, and hundreds of indigenous communities living side by side with nature. Conflicts between the communities, plantation companies and the government have occurred in the past.
A National Food Estate program has been declared, including in Papua, purported to ensure domestic food self-resiliency, and bring development closer to the regions through renewed investment. However previous failed experience have only develop exported crops such as Palm Oil and did not cater to the economic or health needs of the indigenous peoples. This time around, there is a growing call to conduct stronger Free Informed Prior Consent (FPIC) consultations to meet the needs of the local population.
Research on palm oil has been mentioned as 'urgent' and needs to see the interaction between environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts. This study, therefore, attempts to explore the viewpoint of to what extent FPIC has been exercised and whether it has implications towards social justice.
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Palm oil is one of the most polarising commodities in terms of its environmental and economic impacts. Despite having a high productivity rate, it is traditionally associated with industrial agriculture with massive land grabs, displacement and deforestation implications.
Indonesia is one of the world's leading producers of Crude Palm Oil (CPO). Palm oil produced from the provinces of Papua and West Papua will be the key focus of this study. The region of Papua enjoys a rainforest size of 33.8 million hectares (83.5 million acres), an area the size of Florida, and hundreds of indigenous communities living side by side with nature. Conflicts between the communities, plantation companies and the government have occurred in the past.
A National Food Estate program has been declared, including in Papua, purported to ensure domestic food self-resiliency, and bring development closer to the regions through renewed investment. However previous failed experience have only develop exported crops such as Palm Oil and did not cater to the economic or health needs of the indigenous peoples. This time around, there is a growing call to conduct stronger Free Informed Prior Consent (FPIC) consultations to meet the needs of the local population.
Research on palm oil has been mentioned as 'urgent' and needs to see the interaction between environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts. This study, therefore, attempts to explore the viewpoint of to what extent FPIC has been exercised and whether it has implications towards social justice.
Transforming the global countryside: Rural persistance and change in the ‘urban century’
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -