Jungle Justice - Papua New Guinea

July 2005
The town of Kamusie in Papua New Guinea is plagued by corruption and the authoritarian repression of local workers and landowners by a local manufacturing company and the police. The spectacularly beautiful scenery of the surrounding jungle and mountainous landscape, as contained here in some quality footage, offers no solace to the workers who have suffered violence and extreme mal-treatment allegedly ordered by large local companies like Rimbunan Hijau. One of the perpetrators of such brutality in the local mill was once Bani, who admits that he was willing to 'do whatever the company asked him to do' once he had received a regular bribe. Now a reformed policeman, Bani relates in this chilling film the kind of work he was asked to do at the mill, while Dateline investigates his claims in some probing interviews with the local authorities.

Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[meriteman]

The fact that Rimbunan Hijau even exists in PNG is because of corruption within the Govt itself. Let them in for an easy Buck....the government seems as if it doesn't care about the people of PNG, only to make money. They even said in the video that the ministers aren't even present in the province.This is seen almost everywhere, infrastructure such as roads and hospitals are almost non existent in areas such as western province itself. Hopeless government or what?

[melollylolly]

this isn't right--mr. ling should let these landowners keep their land

[scottwilliams56]

who do you work for what is the source of your income?

[wiz310]

Em now Tasol.

[DIRTYDUNNZ]

this was quite interesting.

[ethoughts2008]

The SBS reporter who did this story is an embarrassment to jounalism. It is a neo-colonism reporting that constantly published selective and untruthful reports to destroy the attempts of the developing countries to progress. I totally agree with miblopng. I have lived in PNG for 11 years and still am...

[KeirsCallahan]

yeah

[miblopng]

I think the narrator was wrong to say or imply that Western Province is the poorest and least developed. There is no scale to measure which province is the poorest or least developed...OK Tedi mine is in Western province and the people get more benefits than others in other provinces that have no mines or means to gain from...its the lack of manageing finance that is poor in Western province...my views.