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reached people of color and cyber attacks on vaccine makers in the bar trees. counting the costs on al-jazeera. indonesia is home to asia is the largest remaining rain forest. resource companies are paying as little as $5.00 a day for the ecological paradise through questionable land grants. and. indigenous tribes accusing south korean run. of plundering west papuan for a piece of the $300000000.00 revenue is pure fantasy that's not the case at all 1018 investigate allegations of fraud and human rights abuses deals worth billions of dollars. thank.
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you it's from the indonesian capital jakarta less pop one is more law and as it gets. the province is a rich tapestry of with planets survives and forests where indigenous tribes the believe the central. local ranger like he said says home for indonesia's biodiversity he's found. sits on the globe you can see what i'm about well you know it's a loss of the. new york in the movie. so be careful but in this area that i'm up i think i'm going to go myself because i'm saying i'm going to got to really have someone tell them but their medical kit up on one of my i'm gonna look it up on
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what i'm buying us but i'm. big into nature has some of the fastest deforestation rights in the world. he said since west pomp was wilderness and hundreds of people digitas tribes and now on the friends. they come but you know you want to keep getting killed many saying yemeni government taking you up on a snake it's a take it only you know one way or the mean. i'm not in silicon valley and i said i'm going to do it up and then when they got a couple down one without each other about the lovely little. investigation the issue isn't easy soldiers monitor a whole lot of yes some tough. love coming. up. with help when separatists have been fighting to gain. independents from indonesia to 50.
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foreign observers rarely granted entry 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. cousin that is near and up on the ground. there are military heists like this one because of the national politics. because. as we head deep into the hostile west palm. we see widespread destruction the locum site he's. more than a decade ago and 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 just selling a careened and pasco b. to national whose major investments up based in south korea. in a year long investigation with journalists from among the bad and the good could put one on one east has uncovered evidence which the just some of these do you provide food and lots of city. we've not found a full bore stuff to scatter for the 2 that are. defeated me up because i'm a cutie come on their doorstep they got up i just focus on the government for the time a clip of how was minus 05 is the leader of the man tribe he's showing us the run sister land spanning more than $3000.00 hake days he says they forest was destroyed in 2012 when
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a posco international city tree cleared all the trees and planted oil palms without they consent. but you've. become dynamic i've been out on terror. and in america. and with. 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 was here. last. week. and what most about that. is so cool. but also on that committee demolition possibility this
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company kopi t b i a hold 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 timber and plantation. a few months after the deal korean giant posco international. retaining its owner his local manager. of. the company. we spoke to both marine elders who admit to taking the company's money documenting one of the signatories damiana if you go on a bus at possible concedes the honest it's mars was included in the deal here i'm
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a member of the time to. tell you when i go to bed. basak posix signed a deal leasing the land to the company for 35 years after which ownership would be passed on to the indonesian government in return the marine eldest says he's tried would receive cause and housing but he alleges they received no benefits do you feel any guilt given all the land was destroyed them up by a new you know about the new woman the farmer knew it took on. my man a good opinion one on them up. to me sung up at the penny. let it go up when you know you go up and then jump and then jennifer. who download global you've got a monitor that can only put on. the muni. 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. documents forced linus on the prize to his ancestors asking for. 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 add up we didn't pay any part of. my cut come it didn't pass and then. this amateur footage at a roadblock the posco international's plan tension shows armed forces firing a rifle. in a confrontation with linus and other tribes. he says such you can become even more hostile. along. with.
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someone you come up with a lot of. them marked by. clip of pickle could walk either. we need telling us and that is something to look at. some 2 guys i back up at the company. that. 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 what 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 want to one 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. to mistiness thomas tribe and 5 other clans claim there would never told their forest has been sold in 2010. and it and he had money i'd bet. on a fine of all and you know what. i mean find something he's not.
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poking at and question could not. get him to muscle got a new day. ok. let me ask. let it. run young man you can. do what. you got over there if i thought there was. religious 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.
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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 do we were all over the problem we joined the way 11122500 we've got the one that was a road. to christie to some roads and also we have to provide what one full service sauce with all night in the next twenty's was $6.00 to $6.00 most said george is the do 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 tribes. begin a big amount of work for the. cull about but imo you do b.m. by most i doubt there are. more in general but i'm very current of where. some are going to only. impressed with corinne 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 well because he didn't or when you know by naomi by adding
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a model. there was the mayor that was misquoting misquoted yet he said what if you have children nothing but if a photocopy got it my daddy gently did it without a recent contract the klan's rejected the deal the picture says the company obtained government approvals 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 did read those at the light the board game on a. process he didn't even talk a lot and when a. new loose attack is 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. but korinos conduct has been the . subject of a 2 year pro by the forest stewardship council or at the 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's almost impossible not to choose primary force we get convert of all 60000 hectares of was forced into law. and obviously there was a you know destruction of our environment our values. in excerpts from the uncensored report seen by one o one aced the authors found corrino benefited from close military ties to obtain economic advantage. they estimate west papuan tribes lost $300000000.00 in these
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team big deals and said corrino acquired land for as little as board dollars behead . their grossly 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 it is own life i think we crept on would cripple and. based on industry data one o one east estimates quinto 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. career is the august negotiation again yanni uncle william well can hardly needed time to middling athena. no need to devon property cannot have doesn't. nicholas is a driving force in many troubled negotiations was 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. tori's of time by one to one east showed gives easy 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 hit days of rainforest the companies that will light is sold to careened over and pasco international. into. by the buggy and are you part of. an awesome upper genuinely daughters into mcgovern the only elevator. anything. on this remote property johana school 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
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permits he blames national politicians who were in power at the time of the deal that it took up our mark on our staff of $100.00 africa. afghanistan off to kentucky have it fast. and. now just about i think at the moment. what connects posco international anchor window to the contentious land deal is this korean businessman key man crew who appears in many of the persian isn't documents with the time. to make them true started prime time. it's a time lucrative last story good see and all the politicians then sold them to both companies for tens of millions of dollars. nicholas meyer 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 of rollins and one not a dumb program bookended can will go knocking what they have been caught on there we can fall very right there are some better ones are. there laws room. you know good to know as compared with the things that i'm wrong about in regard to don't want to become one young couple i did latin don't know much that are. in such major one i want to east has confirmed to kim nam 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. i.i. the company the brokered the controversial land deal which led to the destruction of linus on this forest. damiana stone a buffet buffy this he met him and crew during the negotiations and in a traditional ceremony they split this pig skull to mock the deal had been done.
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you know didn't look too good to begin. yeah we had a bowl full of a couple up on down the mob even then a couple of mummy could turn. into. and it was kim now i'm coo who then signed a contract to sell his copy p t b i a 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 be. with you when you don't. who care about are going to. come a look at communicating don't belong to. one another warm. good of a muslim is another sort of calling also as an onlooker that. this was not the only
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deal kim namco who was brokering one on one east has financial statements which show in 2030 a careen go shell company in singapore made a payment that nearly 22000000 dollars to an unnamed consultant described as an expert in giving plantation rides. we asked him and crew about the payment quote on loan until the. will could talk as a dumble or. 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 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 the west papuan tribes say they got very little or
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nothing at all he refuses to discuss these deals. or the. 'd korinos $22000000.00 fine right question as a plantation permits have little or no cost in indonesia and we're company looking to 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 at cases 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 obligations. to 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 the 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 like reno should return cuff 3 land resolve tribal conflicts in fairly common site local communities
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the last livelihood the damaged ecosystems will careen don't do that. real americans returned to the centerpiece the we up part of it 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 . one day. in a bid to protect nation farmers indonesia's current government banned new palming licenses for 3 units 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 public system that's led to past land conflicts and corruption. with vast profits to be made how long can west pop with a pristine wilderness survive. the latest news as it breaks this crowd of hundreds of people didn't come with invitations they came to pay their respects to george for at least detail coverage the government needs to balance the needs of the economy with a trace of the virus returning. from around the world organized crime is now beginning to try to play the role of robin hood by giving away food to win over them while keeping a people in desperate. al
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jazeera. every. you want you all deserve me still robert in doha a reminder of our top news stories across the world half a 1000000 people are known to have died from quote a virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all of those infections and deaths in the united states which is by far the worst hit country the u.s. health secretary is warning time is running out to contain the virus but the window is closing we have to act and people as individuals have to act responsibly we need to social distance we need to wear fit or face coverings if we're in settings where we can't social distance particularly in these hot zones in brazil protesters have
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been demonstrating against president diable sonora is handling of the crisis they've set out a 1000 crosses in the capital brazil is the 2nd worst country in the world the us president says intelligence agencies are told in the report suggesting that russia or offered to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan were not credible but the new york times who 1st reported the story now says senior u.s. officials were aware of the plot as early as january the newspaper reports that at least one death was connected to the bounties karen greenberg is director of the center on national security at the fordham university school of law she says even if trump's denials are true the controversy isn't good for him. if this is a story that actually has some merit to it which if the new york times is right it seems to be that of that he would be briefed on it and not just him but his closest advisers would be briefed done and he would think that there would be some kind of
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investigation into the validity of it and some kind of sense of how to respond and what to do so if he wasn't briefed on it that too was a problem because if there was a story out there intelligence sources or elsewhere then it's the kind of thing that needs to be brought to the attention of the president and so you go away whether he was briefed or not briefed and this actually was information that was in the intelligence community in the national security council arena then either way it doesn't look good for the president in the area of afghanistan pakistan and intelligence services who is using who is. who to do their bidding which groups it's an incredibly cloudy complicated and untrustworthy area and if you study the history of the region over the past many decades you there is always a little bit of who's on who's side who's doing what.
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