Why Papua, whose population is less than 1% of the population of this western Java, its human development index - viewed from the high mortality among children under five and pregnant women, was ranked 29 out of 33 provinces. Where the departure of the wealth of Papua?
Two years ago, disebuah civil society groups meeting in the hotel Sentani Jayapura Papua, were spread out a digital spatial map. That map of West Papua that looks green. This island still has the largest forest in Indonesia. Papua is the largest province, covering 21.9 percent of Indonesia's land area, or about 42.198 million ha. Satellite monitoring data two years ago by FWI and Greenpeace, shows the natural forest area of about 17.9 million ha
But once the concession permits mining of mineral, oil and gas, logging, and also permit large-scale plantations in the area - in an overlap tindihkan on the first map. There are 137 concession permits, with an area of more than 31.89 million ha. Almost all the provinces met licensing.
Let's look at the benefits of these concessions from one mining concession - PT Freeport from the United States. He controls the largest gold deposit and the world's third largest copper - Etzberg and Grasberg. Grasberg gold reserves of 4.6 billion grams - as reported in Freeport in 2004.
No wonder the Freeport prosperous. James Moffett, Freeport Indonesia's big boss, one of the ten highest-paid man in the world. According to Forbes, Moffett income reached Rp 432 billion in 2006. While the population of Papua can only pocketed $ 2 million per year, even after 37 years Freeport operates there.
That's not counting the huge burden to be borne Papua: millions of tonnes of toxic waste (tailings) which, if exported to Java, can drown in Jakarta, Depok, and Bekasi as well. Each with a depth of five meters - that data last year.
How to benefit other concessions? There are 7 industrial plantation forest concession, 21 concessions of large-scale plantations, 65 forest logging concessions, 15 of Mineral and Coal Contract of Work, also 29 blocks? How to benefit the largest gas project in British Petroleum's Tangguh Bintuni bay?
Why Papua, whose population is less than 1% of the population of this western Java, its human development index - viewed from the high mortality among children under five and pregnant women, was ranked 29 out of 33 provinces. Where the departure of the wealth of Papua?
source : www.jatam.org
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