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take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. election on a. indonesia is home to the largest remaining right for. resource companies are paying as little as $5.00 a day for these ecological paradise through questionable land grabs. with. indigenous tribes accused. of plundering west papuan for a piece of. $300000000.00 pure fantasy that's not the case at all when i want to investigate allegations of fraud and human rights abuses deals worth billions of dollars. 3.
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1000 kilometers from the indonesian capital jakarta west papuan is a lot as it gets. the province is a rich tapestry of with plants survives and forests where indigenous tribes the believe the central. local ranger the he says says home for indonesia's biodiversity is found. so that our little bottom can say well i'm a well you know it's a loss of the. money and keep the woman you keep so be careful but in this area that i'm up i think i'm going to go myself if i'm saying yeah but i got really have so much i can buy them but i can get up and. look it up on what i'm buying guns but
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i'm. big into nature has some of the fastest deforestation rights in the wode. he said his west pump was wilderness and hundreds of people digitas tribes and now on the friends. they come but you know you want to live but you'll be seeing yemeni government taking you up on a snake it's and you could only hit out on me if i mean. i'm not until you can win then i said i'm going to do it up and then when they got a couple done up on the lovely cherry about the lovely little. investigation the issue isn't easy soldiers monitoring a lot of the gaps sometimes. coming. up. with compliments separatists have been fighting to gain. independence from internation the 50.
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foreign of the daily granted intrigues to these threats to wimbledon 30 people were killed in clashes with the army last year. but we've gained special access to west pop woods conservations a. muslim is not up on the ground. there are military pirates like this one because of the national palm. os. as we head deep into the hostile west. we see widespread destruction the locum psyches. more than a decade ago in indonesia has been dubbed the reach to the resource sector and
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allowed companies to buy up tribal land. to companies that benefited from the selling careened of pasco international routes and major investments up based in south korea. in a yearlong investigation with journalists from congo ballet and that it could put one on one east has uncovered evidence which the just some of the steel provides crude and was sitting. 6 we've not found a full bore. but this kind of threat to that. defeated me up because i'm not kidding come on from there before specter got up i just focused on the government for the time a clip of how was minus 05 is the leader of the man bilbo trying he's showing us the run fix to land spanning more than $3000.00 hectic pace he says they forest was destroyed in 2012 when
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a posco international city jury cleared all the trees and planted oil palms without they consent. you know what you've. become dynamic. going up we both in america. and. modest told the company there was a long standing agreement between them and dubbo and then neighboring tribe the marines to share the land. but these documents showed the land deal only had agreement from 2 marine. staff on the smile see. most. meaning and what most about that. medicare is so cool. but also on that committee them along with possibility
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this company kopi t.b.i. a cold the forest for $5.00 a head with an estimated total land size of $200000.00 while linus is tried got nothing leaked documents showed that the company expected to make more than a $1000000000.00 from the team but implantation. a few months after the deal korean giant posco international. retaining its owners as local managers have. come to the company. we spoke to both marine elders who admit to taking the company's money documenting one of the signatories damiana as possible
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concedes the honest as morris was included in the deal here i'm a member of the time to. tell you what i do to bed. bostic posix signed a deal leasing the land to the company for 35 years after which ownership would be passed on to the indonesian government and in return the marine delta says he's tried would receive cars and housing but he alleges they received no benefits do you feel any guilt given all the land was just right now i'm not buying new you know i'm up a new woman a foreign you know it took on. my men a good opinion one on them up. and 2 up on me sung up at the penny one. let it go up when your idol you go up and then jump and run jenny. who don't look global you've got a monitor that can only put out to. the minute. posco international
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denied the deal was fraudulent they claimed the project provided adequate compensation and was approved by all levels of government. back in the forest linus on the price to his ancestors asking for help. but he's also resorted to more confrontational measures. for my long and we can go do peace and war. long ago. but also. coming was not about the end up he didn't pay me for. my car come it didn't press him. this amateur food at a road block the posco international's plantation shows armed forces firing a rifle. in a confrontation with lawrence and other tribes. he says such you can become even more hostile. i learned that i was. going to.
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need. someone to come up with a lot of. them marked by. part of picketed what i would use we needed telling us and that is something like i. had some to go i back up the. company. go international argue dealings with local communities predated the acquisition of the land and in the statement deny all allegations of fraud and its conduct the company. local manages provided sufficient consultation to help tribes determine ownership and compensation on the indonesian customary law. but a 2009 legal document leaked to one when east states the same local manages with
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trying to acquire land without verifying the onus were pasco international claims the so-called insufficiency was resolved in 2011. but making notes provided by the company revealed they were still resolving tribal land boundaries on linus is blocking 2016 more than 3 years off to the forest was destroyed. other indigenous communities accused karoonda whisp up with biggest pomo producer of taking their land in simla to speak. mistiness thomas tribe and 5 other clans claim they would never told the forest had been sold in 2010. and it got it and he had money and i think that. i may find all i needed a lot. of it find
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a sunday he's not. looking at and question did not. have a muscle got a new day a militia ok. let me ask. that. i'm young and you can. get over it i think it's. really just say they would not employed to work on the project and gave a 50 families just $100.00 each one 7th of what they demanded. by . the model.
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with. the. same sustainability officer. denies the allegations the company has violated people's rights they're all called. misunderstandings but all in all i think if you want to take a survey with the residents there or do the high life we were all over the problem we join the way 11122500 we've got the one who has a role in. the christie to some roads and also we have to provide what one for so exhausted all night in that book the next 20 schools 6 to 6 most central just a lot of development. local store in
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a picturesque worked with kareena after one of the company's subsidiaries approached him in 2014 with promises of development for local try. begin a bigger man of. color about the door imo you do b.m. by mouse and dad there are. more in general but i'm very country where. some are going to only. impressed with korean goes south beach pétrus persuaded his tribe and 10 other clans to sell their forest for $8.00 a heck there. they also asked for houses electricity and school scholarships but he claims corrino avoided putting the deal on paper and instead gave them simply $1000.00 among other gives me the sort of if you need to continue concern at the most of them were because you didn't know or don't you know by name only by adding
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a mile. they want their mail that was misquoting misquoted the edition what if you don't so that nothing but if a photocopy got it my daddy didn't without a recent contract the klan's rejected the deal but petra says the company obtained government approval to build the plantation anyway by misrepresenting tribal discussions as an agreement there might be a comparable muldrow that work document us here does that option i do read those at the light the board game on a. process leading in every circle what and when there are. new loose attackers to produce fear living transparent we have been open we have work conducted a proper lucian's prove the laws and regulations when the russian government it's not true that not go through the proper channels. korinos conduct has been the subject of a 2 year pro by the forest stewardship council or at their say
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a global certification body this is. after legal threats from the company the certification body only published a redacted summary of its investigation which recommended corrino be stripped of its f.s.a. membership the redacted report also found corrino violated the human rights of west papuan and destroyed 30000 hc days of fi conservation value forest in potlucks it is almost impossible not to choose primary force we get convert of all 60000 hectares of forced into law. and obviously there was a you know destruction of up in a moment of values. in excerpts from the uncensored report saying by 1018 the authors found corrino benefited from close military ties to obtain economic advantage. they estimate west papuan tribes lost $300000000.00 in these team big
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deals and said corrino acquired land for as little as board dollars behead. the deal also it misleading accusations is part of the contacts on those reports that the cia decided to maintain membership with us here's the decision learned early happy with the decision in a recent response to the redacted report corrino recognized there may have been some shortcomings in some of our operations what are the shortcomings of course there could be improvements and specifically i guess we could build more schools for the better if i could just to pop in. here so i think it was in his own life i think we crept on would crypt and. based on industry data one o one east estimates corrino exported would be worth more than $320000000.00 from their project a figure the company denies but it's clear tribes got mega sums for their land is
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that fair compensation for the transfer of their land and resources to create or market dictates the price not us. you know west papuan town we meet nicholas now who is a a tribe's now he says he worked with corrino and pasco international to acquire forests nicholas confirms it deals he witnessed some tribes were only offered 5 dollars a hectic t.v. career is a august negotiation again jani uncle william well can hardly needed time to middling athena. now i need to know one property cannot have doesn't. nicholas is a driving force in many tribal negotiations with your highness good to get see who is from one of west palm with most powerful political families in 2007 when gibbs
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he was an elected local government leader he promised these lands would deliver incredible prosperity. photos of time by 101 east showed gives the in a hotel with a career no director allegedly signing concession documents government map shows no one day alone gives he granted permits covering 160 down and 8 days of rainforest the companies that will light is sold to careened and pasco international. in the. by the by gender are you part of virginia and as i'm up or down you're only daughters into mcgovern the only elevator. anything of a comedian will but. on this remote property your harness glue begins he is currently under house arrest unrelated corruption offense we contact him by phone. down. and out the top back. gives he denies he's local government approved the permit
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he blames national politicians who were in power at the time of the deal that it took up on our stock of $100.00 up at the time of. the stuff to conduct if after that. i just about i took them on. what connects posco international anchor window to the contentious land deal is this korean businessman command crew who appears in many of the persian isn't documents with the kind. man crew started primetime. ancient governments obtained lucrative last sister a good seat and other politicians then sold them to both companies for tens of millions of dollars. nicholas mom who's a says he received a $300.00 monthly stipend from kidnap crew to help facilitate land deals for him.
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i'm not one but a volunteer more not a dumb program back in the can will come knocking what we haven't got a hold on there we can fall very. young so minimize our. room. put it in as compared with the things that i'm wrong about in regard to the. couple obviously a glass window to market. in such making one i want to east has confirmed crew paid as little as $5.00 a head did to tribes to de forest. this document shows he was the director of p.t.b. ira the company the brokered the controversial land deal which led to the destruction of linus on this forest. damiana soon a buffet buffett says he met him and crew during the negotiations and in a traditional ceremony i split these pigs to mock the deal had been done. you know
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who can do to look too good to be given the 3. yeah we had a bowl full of a couple or. even then a couple nobody could turn. into. and it was kim nam coup who then signed the contract to sell his cup the p.t.b. i.i. to pasco international the price $10000000.00. with help from the korea center for investigative journalism we cool keep them could. only be good to . you when you don't. care about our good and go. from a look at communicating. to all the good of a muslim isn't going to sort of political solution on the. this was not the only
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deal with brokering 100. niece has financial statements which show in 2030 a careen no shell company in singapore made a payment of nearly $22000000.00 to an unnamed consultant described as an expert in giving plantation rides. we asked him and crew about the payment on loan until it. could talk as a jumble of. so we did and in a written statement careened over executives confirmed that the $22000000.00 consultant is kidnapped. they claim the payment gave them ownership of his company and almost 40000 head days of west papuan rainforest. corrino says that translates to around $560.00 a day for the land. give them crew pocketed at least $30000000.00 from land sell to the palm oil giants but west papuan tribes say they've got very little or
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nothing at all he refuses to discuss these deals. or they are. 'd korinos $22000000.00 in time right questions as plantation permits have little or no cost in indonesia and clear but he looked into brucia be a former prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice is an expert on financial crimes. what kind of expert is paid that much money at a market rate. and what kinds of things besides expertise are being provided do you think your thorough he should be investigating this case that law enforcement ought to be taking a hard work chases in the palm oil sector where there are huge unexplained payments to consultants there are possible signs of corruption there certainly are
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lots of bribery chases you know where the term consultancy is used as a euphemism for bribe payments through an intermediary or a bag for a corrupt publications. nation government declined to comment. corrino denies any involvement in bribery or any wrongdoing in this matter after looking 760 square kilometers of pasco international and careened or say they have stopped large scale deforestation in west papuan but now. both companies have lost palm oil deals with my detritus and brands likeness like. some indigenous tribes say they feel robbed karoonda makes no apology some rights groups say corrino should return cuff 3 lands resolve tribal conflicts in fairly common site local
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communities the last livelihood the damaged ecosystems will careen don't do that. real americans returned to apathy centerpiece the we up hearted those illegal means little agreement with the bush indonesian government and resident. we big public opposition would stay happy yes there are those who are not happy with it but that's not the field will people . well you will never. know when they get. in a bid to protect nation of foreigners in the nation's current government pamyu palming licenses for 3 years but that ends in 2020 want a change in political power could leave west cop with isolated communities open to a new wave of i'm sure you with the best of.
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the system and that's led to past land conflicts and corruption. like thank you with the vast profits to be made how long can west pop was pristine wilderness survive. when the cold 19 pandemic hit iran. a filmmaker cut the drift from his crew began documenting life from the naacp made on growing international sanctions. an intimate portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries coronavirus locked down iran people in power on a. al-jazeera
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where every 'd. europe's relaxed restrictions are called into question as the continent sees an upsurge in corona virus infections. while in the u.s. some states have halted plans to reopen new infections of time to near record highs . alone can bell this is there a line from dog also coming up. iran investigates an explosion this up the night skies east of the capital tehran. a month after one of its planes.
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