Lesthia Kertopati

Pesta Babi, or what you said, Pig Feast, documents how the tribes in Papua resist palm oil, biodiesel, and sugarcane bioethanol projects.

And alongside their stories, it also depicts the issues of 60 years of Indonesian military operations related to the exploitation of Papuan land.

Pig Feast itself, it's a tradition, a festival called Atat Bon in Southern of Papua.

This is a sacred tradition, but it's threatened to extinct as it being abandoned by the young generations.

The Pig Feast itself...

The ceremony itself, it's believed to give blessings to the market day.

Pig in Papua, it's also considered wealth.

So that's why they have in this title the importance of this pig feast.

So Papua is a very wealth region in Indonesia.

They have minerals, you know, big forests, and there is a lot of mining activities that could be potentially taken from the land.

But in Papua, there's a lot of customary lands.

that's collided with all these mineral resources.

A customary territory, usually it's owned by a tribe and passed through generation, but usually they don't have official documentation, the government documentation.

So there's no land certificate whatsoever, but it's been recognized as the land of the tribe.

It's a huge scale.

So all the companies that come to Papua,

ended in deforestation of the Papua forest that, like I told you before, is tied to the customary land.

So people in Papua, their land has been taken, their way of life has been decimated because of this.

So usually when the government come into a tribal land and they want to transform the land into a plantation or a farmland, they will try to relocate

the indigenous people out of their land to another piece of land.