JAKARTA Civil society advocates representing more than 2,000 customary communities in Indonesia have initiated last-ditch legal challenges over parliament’s failure to pass an Indigenous rights bill during the 10-year administration of President Joko Widodo. “It is very important that there is the guarantee of legal certainty concerning the recognition and protection of Indigenous peoples […]
Jakarta, Mar 13 (EFE).- Indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Borneo Island on Wednesday denounced government attempts to remove them from their ancestral lands for the construction of the new Indonesian capital, Nusantara. Local communities in East Kalimantan province have expressed concerns that the proposed forced eviction would uproot nearly 20,000 people from their homes and native …
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TALANG PARIT, Indonesia For more than two decades, the residents of this Indigenous community in Riau province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, have watched as their lakes dried up and the rainforest dwindled. “The forest is gone,” Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader, told Mongabay Indonesia. “What was sacred has […]