In the Village of Bupul, there is a company came with a plan to clear forest for palm-oil estate. I am personally reject the plan. If the plan is to plant rubber trees, I would agreed. Palm-oil estate have proven bringing negative impacts, among others, excessively consuming waters and degrading natural springs. Other thing is the company will not permit us cultivate anything inside their plantation area. It was proven anywhere that such kind of companies always cheating local people. They always said something different with what they have actually did. They are working merely for their own benefits, not for the interests and advantages of local people.
- Pasifikus Anggojai, Villager of Bupul, District of Elikobel, Merauke.
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You Sell the Land, You Sell Your Mother
We are the people of Bupul still have our own ancestral forests. We are still free to get our own foods in the forest, swamps and rivers. Now, it is really depend on ourselves to use the land or not in our own ways. If we not use it, we will lack of foods and desperate. Who are not lazy to go hunting, they would have enough foods. We should deeply thinking about it. Do not doing a fool. Just because of money, we sell our ancestral forests. We ourselves today will enjoying the moner but let our children and grandchidlren deseperate in the future. If we sell our land to the companies, it is means that we sell our own mother!