Human Rights, Climate Change, Business and Indigenous Peoples: Food Estate in West Papua and the Impact on Indigenous Peoples, Forests and Climate Change – Useful Links

Chat Links

https://dtp.org.au/community/eko-waluyo/

• Eko Waluyo

https://unitedrisingassociation.com/west-papua-is-not-an-empty-land-the-story-of-a-young-indigenous-activist-defending-her-people-and-their-forests/

• Dorothea Wabiser

[email protected]

• Amicus to be sent to the Panels of Judges on the Indonesian Constitutional Court for the Case Number: 112/PUU-XXIII/2025

https://www.change.org/p/hentikan-psn-perampas-kehidupan-rakyat?recruited_by_id=1349ace0-7cac-11f0-a58e-5d86e00cd340 

• GERAM's online petition

https://www.samdhana.org/member/grant-rosoman

• Grant Rosoman

https://pusaka.or.id/en/

• PUSAKA

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/

• Greenpeace

https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/new-interactive-mapping-platform-exposes-accelerating-environmental-destruction-in-west-papua/

• Map exposing the environmental destruction in West Papua

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/un-calls-out-indonesias-merauke-food-estate-for-displacing-indigenous-communities/

• News Article: UN calls out Indonesian Food estates

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/561185/indigenous-west-papuans-claim-indonesian-government-is-land-grabbing

• News article on land grabbing in West Papua by the Indonesian Government

https://thegeckoproject.org/articles/fear-and-raiders-in-west-papua/

• The Gecko Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TodspXXUDs

• Film by the Gecko Project on the Indonesian Food Estates

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/29/indonesia-renewed-fighting-threatens-west-papua-civilians

• Military action by the Indonesian Government against West Papuan Civilians

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-stories/2025-10-03-eat-lancet-2025-global-food-transformation-needed-to-ease-pressure-on-the-planet-and-save-millions-of-lives.html

• Stockholm Resilience research story on Food Estate

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events/general-news/2025-09-24-seven-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-now-breached.html

• Stockholm Resilience news story on planetary boundaries being breached

https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-indonesia-stateless/2023/03/f754bcf7-food-estate-report_english_new-rev_030723.pdf

• Greenpeace report on Food Estates in West Papua

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/carbon-bomb-indonesias-failed-mega-rice-project

• Report on failed Food Estate project

https://www.greenpeace.org/southeastasia/press/66530/dark-day-for-indigenous-forests-in-tanah-papua-as-supreme-court-rejects-awyu-tribes-final-appeal/

• Greenpeace report on Awyu court decision

 Indonesia: UN experts sound alarm on serious Papua abuses, call for urgent aid | OHCHR

• OHCHR article - Indonesia: UN experts sound alarm on serious Papua abuses, call for urgent aid

Additional Resources

Indonesia: UN experts sound alarm on serious Papua abuses, call for urgent aid | OHCHR

• OHCHR article - Indonesia: UN experts sound alarm on serious Papua abuses, call for urgent aid

https://www.reportingasean.net/indonesia-the-new-old-strategy-of-food-estates/

Indonesia: Merauke Food Estate Project draws UN scrutiny over indigenous rights and environmental concerns 

• Merauke Food Estate Project draws UN scrutiny over indigenous rights and environmental concerns

https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=29741

• Special rapporteurs to the U.N. human right commission letter to the Indonesian government surrounding the impacts of Merauke’s food estate

https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-environment-institute/news-analysis/news/2025/09/05/new-book-reframes-hunger.html

• Article announcing new book by Sophie Chao, which reframes hunger as a justice issue in West Papua

https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/talking-indonesia-papua-food-and-racism/

• Podcast interviewing Dr Sophie Chao on the intersections of race, food, and development in Papua,

https://pusaka.or.id/lini-masa/lini-masa-proyek-strategis-nasional-merauke/

• Merauke's NSP timeline

https://pusaka.or.id/riset_investigation/nekropolitik-negara-militerisasi-produksi-pangan-di-tanah-malind-anim/ 

• Militarization in Merauke's NSP Report (bahasa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWIdisQ4Dk&t=20s 

• (Movie) Food Estate Dilemma