Papuan holds a banner during a protest to support the Sorong head regency that is sued by palm oil companies in West Papua Provincial Parliament Building. The Jayapura Administrative Court in Papua Province on Tuesday ruled in favour of a district head who had revoked permits allowing more than a dozen palm oil companies to operate in Indigenous forest areas and turn them into plantations. Johny Kamuru, head of Sorong Regency, cancelled the permits after Indigenous groups said they had not consented to the conversion of their ancestral lands into palm oil concessions and a review by the provincial government recommended they be revoked in February 2021.