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Indonesia offers Elon Musk Papuan island for SpaceX launchpad. But residents are not happy

Indonesia has offered Papuan island to Elon Musk as a potential launch site for his SpaceX project. But the residents are not happy as they think it would devastate their island’s ecosystem and drive people from their homes.

They have told the billionaire Tesla chief his company is not welcome on their land.  

Musk was offered use of part of the small island of Biak in Papua by Indonesian president Joko Widodo in December, 2020.  ....

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Anger after Indonesia offers Elon Musk Papuan island for SpaceX launchpad


But Papuans on Biak are fiercely opposed, arguing a space launchpad will drive deforestation, increase Indonesian military presence, and threaten their future on the island. A tribal chief on the island, Manfun Sroyer, said he feared Papuans will be forced from their homes.
“This spaceport will cost us our traditional hunting grounds, damaging the nature our way of life depends on. But, if we protest, we’ll be arrested immediately.”
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, also aims to develop a large rocket launch site on Biak island by 2024.
“In 2002, Russians wanted our land for satellite launches. We protested and many were arrested and interrogated… now they’ve brought it back, and this harassment and intimidation is still going on,” Manfun Sroyer said. ....

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