Bert Ernste • NL | BR<p>West Papua and the Sweet Taste of Murder (Counterpunch)</p><p>The total area of Indonesian palm oil cultivation is about 25 million hectare.</p><p>In West Papua this destructive extractivism also entails violent social change for the country’s Indigenous peoples.</p><p><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/08/west-papua-and-the-sweet-taste-of-murder/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">counterpunch.org/2025/04/08/we</span><span class="invisible">st-papua-and-the-sweet-taste-of-murder/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>West</span></a> Papua <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>West</span></a> Papoea <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>New</span></a> Guinea <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Nieuw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nieuw</span></a> Guinea <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/papua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>papua</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/papoea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>papoea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/palm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palm</span></a> oil <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> people <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> rights <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/prabowo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prabowo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/transmigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transmigration</span></a></p>