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PT PAL Opens 3,500 Hectares Of New Oil Palm Plantations In Papua

Timika, Aug 18 (Antara) - PT Pusaka Agro Lestari has cleared 3,500 hectares of forests for oil palm plantations in the district of Timika, Mimika, Papua.. Head of the Mimika forestry office Syahrial told Antara news agency here on Monday PT PAL had continued to expand its oil palm plantations. This year, the company planned to open 4,000 hectares of new oil palm plantations in Papua, Syahrial said, adding the 3,500 hectares are part of the target. "We have no information yet about its plan for 2015," he said. He said the operation of PT PAL had been distubed lately with the recent communal conflict in the area of Djayanti-Mayon, Kuala Kencana. "The workers could not return home to Timika for fear of falling victims in the conflicts," he said, adding, now, however, the condition has been normal. The company has fully paid its obligation in forestry resource royalty provision and reforestation fund to the government for the trees it felled, he said. "In July it paid Rp700 million in forest resource royalty provision and reforestation fund," he added. In 2013, it fully paid more than Rp3 billion including Rp1.151 billion in forest resource royalty provision and Rp1.976y billion in reforestation fund. The contractors opening and clearing the land for oil palm plantations of PT PAL is PT Reksa Rekatama. Part of the trees from the forest cleared by PT PAL had been used as building materials for the to office of the plantation company and houses of its workers, and the rest were sold to local timber companies. The tree species include mixture of jungle trees , meranti , etc. v. PT PAL has secured a license from the government to open up to 39,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in the Mimika regency. The locations extends from Sungai Kamoro in the east to Sungai Mimika in the west.

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