Tag: Landowner protest
PNG landowner group accused of ‘hijack’ over validation in Porgera
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Allegations of "hijacking and manipulation" of a Papua New Guinea national government sanctioned validation exercise at the Porgera mine in Enga...
Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant
By Ayat S. Karokaro in Medan
Indonesian activists have deplored the recent jailing of two indigenous community members in Sumatra in a land conflict...
Gallery: Guardianship photo shoot with the Ihumātao ‘protectors’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede joined the Ihumātao "protectors" protest at the weekend to soak up the atmosphere of guardianship...
Protesters arrested and dogs pepper-sprayed at ‘sacred’ NZ site
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand police have pepper-sprayed two dogs and arrested three more people at the site of a controversial land dispute in...
Angore landowners set LNG machinery on fire in more PNG unrest
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire...
‘Cheated’ PNG landowners threaten to close five fish processing plants
Lae landowners have given the papua New Guinean government seven days to review existing agreements or they will close the disputed tuna fish canneries....
PNG court overturns loggers ban on custom landowners entering own land
By Scott Waide in Lae
A group of customary landowners in Papua New Guinea has regained access to their land following a significant legal victory...
Images: ‘No BCL, no mining,’ say protesting Panguna women
Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
They demonstrated in Arawa in central...
Panguna landowner women protesters block mine pact, win court order
Panguna women landowner protesters -- mothers from the mining affected areas and the women from Central Bougainville -- have demanded the Autonomous Bougainville Government...
Frustrated PNG gas supply landowners protest over non-payment of royalties
Protesting landowners in Central Province blockade the PNG LNG plant site today in anger over unpaid royalties. Video: EMTV
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
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Hides landowners sign MOU with PNG government to end blockade
By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s Hides gas landowners from PDL 1 and 7 have signed a memorandum of understanding with...