COSMAS Siringo-ringo, 43 years old, awaits the promise of the Medan Region I Forest Area Consolidation Center to come and inspect the boundary markers erected in their plantations, rice fields, and customary villages. Together with a number of indigenous communities around Lake Toba, Cosmas, who is an elder of the Holbung indigenous community, at the Samosir Regency, North Sumatra, came to the center’s office on Tuesday, April 12. They