Controversy Around the Fakfak Fertilizer Project

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) concluded that the plan to build the Fakfak Fertilizer Industrial Zone in West Papua was not feasible to continue. An audit of state-owned fertilizer...

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