Kreung Tola, a prominent coordinator for the Indigenous People Network in Mondulkiri province, is currently living and doing business in Lam Me village of Pech Chreada district’s Bousra commune.
KREUNG Tola, a prominent coordinator for the Indigenous People Network in Mondulkiri province, is currently living and doing business in Lam Me village of Pech Chreada district’s Bousra commune.
Cambodia puts its arduous titling process for Indigenous land up for review
by Danielle Keeton-Olsen on 15 April 2021
Since 2009, Cambodia has had a legal process by which Indigenous communities can obtain legal title to their traditional land.
Of around 455 Indigenous communities in Cambodia, 33 have been granted land titles.
People who have engaged in the Indigenous land titling process say it is time-consuming and arduous, and that even successful claimants are often granted title to just a fraction of their customary land.
This year, Cambodia has launched a review of its communal land titling process. Even people involved in the review are unsure what prompted it or what impacts the review might have.