Who actually benefits from the Trans Papua Highway? West Papua Daily


Public Works Ministry Teams Up With Army to Complete TransPapua Highway

E360 Digest November 19, 2020 A Wave of Infrastructure Projects to Cause Widespread Deforestation in Coming Decades, Report Finds An excavator tears up trees in the Kebar Mountains to expand the Trans-Papua Highway. Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace


TransPapua Road Construction Reaches 3,279 Kilometers, Here is the

Podcast: The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares by Mike DiGirolamo on 2 March 2022 Set to run some 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) and being built over the course of decades, the Trans-Papua Highway cuts across the entire length of Indonesian New Guinea's two provinces.


The Trans Papua Road Was Built To Facilitate Transportation between

The Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia, which are on the island of New Guinea, are connected by 12 road segments collectively known as the Trans Papua Highway (Indonesian: Jalan Raya Trans-Papua), some of which are still under construction. The highways cover a distance of 4,325 kilometers from Sorong to Merauke (2,687 mi). There are currently 3,850 km (2,390 mi) of roads under.


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838476004 The Trans Papua Highway is the latest and the biggest infrastructure development in the President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo Era. This is a breakthrough project by the Indonesian government that the main purpose of this 4,325 kilometers road is as the lifeline of the economy in West Papua.


Who actually benefits from the Trans Papua Highway? West Papua Daily

The Trans-Papua Highway is intended to connect ports in western New Guinea with the highland interior, a largely untapped area for timber and palm-oil companies. But the road's construction is.


The Impact of the Construction TransPapua Highway on Local Development

The most well-known of these developments, the Trans-Papua Highway - a 4,330 kilometer (2700 mile) project stretching from Sorong in the north-west to Merauke in the south-east - is billed to be completed by the end of this year. The government aims to roll out full electrification by then, too.


A Highway Megaproject Tears at the Heart of New Guinea's Rainforest

In 2019, the opening of Trans-Papua Highway was nearly complete (red lines on the map above), though 51km remained unopened. Many are concerned that the highway, and other roads, are being.


Trans Papua Highway 2020 Ekspedisi Ujung Timur Indonesia YouTube

KEEROM, KOMPAS — The under-construction Trans-Papua Highway, spanning 3,462 kilometers from north to south in the easternmost region of the country, has changed the landscape and has had impacts on the lives of local people. With several sections having been completed, the land transportation network has brought about economic benefits.


Accelerating a TransPapua Road Construction Good Morning Papua

Some of Jokowi's ambitious development plans include the Trans Papua highway, expected to go into operation in 2018; full electrification across Papua and West Papua by 2019, from the current 47 percent; and building seaports that are part of his nationwide sea tollway program. The amount the government is spending on these programs is significant.


The Trans Papua Road that Connects the Arfak Mountains. Stock Image

In 2019, the opening of Trans-Papua Highway was nearly complete (red lines on the map above), though 51km remained unopened. Many are concerned that the highway, and other roads, are being.


Podcast The TransPapua Highway could lose billions and deforest

by Loren Bell on 20 December 2018 Construction on a section of Indonesia's Trans-Papua highway was suspended after at least 17 people were killed; conflicting reports state the victims were either contract laborers or Indonesian soldiers.


Massive road project threatens New Guinea’s biodiversity Science AAAS

In 2019, the opening of Trans-Papua Highway was nearly complete (red lines on the map above), though 51km remained unopened. Many are concerned that the highway, and other roads, are being.


Two Sides of the TransPapua Highway Kompas.id

Spanning for more than 4.330 kilometers from Sorong in West Papua to Merauke in Papua, Trans-Papua Highway is undeniably ambitious in its scope of connecting isolated locations throughout Papua into a single connected highway. Wow! The Impact of Trans-Papua Highway


A Highway Megaproject Tears at the Heart of New Guinea's Rainforest

The Trans Papua highway is part of Indonesian President Joko Widodo's plan to develop the impoverished eastern province, and open up access to its abundant natural resources.


The TransPapua Highway threatens West Papua's biodiversity West

Work on the Trans-Papua Highway has proceeded in fits and starts since 2013. Nearly nine-tenths of the total road route has been bulldozed, but the project is far from complete, with much road paving, earthworks, and hundreds of bridges — totaling more than 4 miles in length — yet to be constructed.


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Indonesia's planned Trans-Papua highway will facilitate easier exploitation of West Papua's resources by the occupying Indonesian regime - and more violence against the West Papuan people who resist it. For Papuans, the process of 'development' is experienced as a violent and traumatic dispossession. (Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace)