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Indonesia 's Papua region is home to the last great expanse of rainforest in Southeast Asia .
Most of 1.1 million hectares ( 2.7 million acres ) of natural forest that the government has authorized for clearing will be converted into oil palm plantations.
Papua’s forests are among the most biodiverse on Earth , home to at least 20,000 plant species, 602 birds, 125 mammals and 223 reptiles.
The Tanah Merah mega plantation project in Papua ’s Boven Digoel district, a deforestation hotspot, is a litmus test for the ministry and the oil palm plantation moratorium.
The project has been mired in a litany of controversies, with a 2018 investigation showing how permits were issued by an official in jail on corruption charges; Indigenous peoples were coerced into relinquishing the rights to their ancestral lands.
Belinda Arunarwati Margono , the forestry ministry’s director of forest resource monitoring, acknowledged that there are secondary forests that are nearly as pristine as primary forests.
But she said it's not possible, due to “technical difficulties,” to include them in the moratorium.
These areas may be classified as conservation forests in the future.
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