Sago Processing in Sira Village, West Papua

A Papuan man Kladit works on the sago mill inside the forest among Sira village, Teminabuan, South Sorong, West Papua. One year ago (March 2017), Sira and Mangroholo villagers received the permission of village forest management, to start learning to process the sago to make it more valuable so it can help boost the economy of their villages. Sago is a starch extracted from the pith of various tropical palm stems.

Unique identifier: GP0STRNJX

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Shoot date: 14/03/2018

Locations: Indonesia, South Sorong Regency, Southeast Asia, West Papua

Credit line: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Forest Village in Sira Village, West Papua

One year ago (March 2017), Sira villagers received the permission of village forest management, to start to learn how to process the sago and other commodities from the forest to make it more valuable so it can help boost the economy of their villages.
Manggroholo and Sira villages in South Sorong, West Papua managed to obtain permission of village forest management. The first village forest in Papua brings new hope for the protection of the paradise of biodiversity in the world, now it has seen its destruction by the expansion of oil palm plantations and pulp. Greenpeace have advocated these villagers to get the permission for this forest village since 2008.

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