Webinar – Human Rights, Climate Change, Business and Indigenous Peoples: Indonesia’s Food Estate in Merauke and Its Impacts: Indonesia’s Climate Bomb – Useful Links

Chat Links

• The Diplomacy Training Program
  https://dtp.org.au/

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

Eko Waluyo – DTP Indonesian Alumni and facilitator for this webinar

https://dtp.org.au/community/dina-maria-danomira/

Dina Maria Danomira – Speaker

https://dtp.org.au/community/saurlin-p-siagian/

• https://pusaka.or.id/en/ PUSAKA – DTP’s partner

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

General Resources

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

UNHCR (various special rapporteurs and working groups) letter to the primary Indonesian developer of the plantations in Merauke Regency of South Papua Province, Indonesia, regarding the alleged violations of the rights of indigenous people in respect of land clearing and the expansion of plantation businesses

• https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=29747%C2%A0

The Response of the Indonesian Government to the UNHCR letter

• https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=38999

Mongabay news article about the UN special rapporteur letters about the Merauke food estate and the displacement of indigenous Papuans

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

Greenpeace Report: Inside the Merauke Sugarcane Project

• https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-southeastasia-stateless/2025/12/9283d090-inside-the-merauke-sugarcane-project.pdf

Greenpeace article promoting the Greenpeace Inside the Merauke Sugarcane Project Report

https://www.greenpeace.org/southeastasia/publication/68196/inside-merauke-sugarcane-project/

Human Rights Watch Article about how Indonesian police have been handling protests by local Papuans regarding the Merauke food estate project

• https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/14/indonesia-police-disperse-papuans-protesting-food-estate-project