Indigenous Indonesians mount palm oil blockade
Dayak community in East Kalimantan demands $1 million in compensation for stolen lands and livelihoods
Indigenous people man a picket line blockading the Subur Abadi Wana Agung palm oil plantation in Long Bentuq in East Kalimantan’s Kuntai Timur district. (Photo supplied)
An indigenous community in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has launched a campaign seeking more than US1 million in compensation from a palm oil company by blockading its plantation.
Members of the Dayak indigenous group from Long Bentuq in Kutai Timur district have sealed off the entrance and exit to the plantation owned by Subur Abadi Wana Agung, a subsidiary of Tri Putra Group, for more than a week now.