Pemandangan udara jalan raya baru yang membelah hutan dataran rendah di Provinsi Papua. Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace

Riset: Sekitar 4,5 juta hektare hutan bakal hilang, terimbas proyek Trans Papua

Banyak pihak mengkhawatirkan proyek Trans Papua dibangun demi kepentingan komersial, bukan masyarakat setempat. Diprediksi akan mempercepat deforestasi, seperti yang terjadi di Sumatra dan Kalimantan.
Aerial view of the new highway cutting through lowland forest in Papua Province. Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace

Road to uncertainty: research reveals how Trans Papua may strip 4.5 million hectares of forest by 2036

Many are concerned that the highway is being built to benefit powerful commercial interests and not Indigenous people and will accelerate forest loss as seen in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

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