Analysis of the implementation impact of Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE)

Abstract

Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) the government is preparing a potential land in Merauke covering 1.6 million hectares or up to 20 thousand hectares. The purpose of this research is to determine the environmental impact of MIFEE Implementation. This research is an empirical juridical legal research that is research on the effectiveness of the law, which discusses how the law operates in society, the factors affecting the law in society. The research results showed that the MIFEE Project had an impact and threatened the existence of community rights. Large companies continued to expand and displace community lands to be converted into agriculture. As a result, influencing the community's water sources, the removal of local communities is increasingly minority and the destruction of the traditional economy of the communities who have relied on their lives in the forest, sad poverty proves the failure of the company to carry out promises of social development and economic assistance.