Mushrooming Land Conflicts
Tempo
April 11, 2012
Thousands of communal land conflicts have flourished in the country. This problem may be a time bomb unless the government promptly issues clear-cut provisions on the recognition of people's rights to communal land. Some of them are as follows.
Pandumaan and Sipitu Huta
The communities in Pandumaan and Sipitu Huta villages, Pollung district, North Sumatra, are anxious. In 2009, PT Toba Pulp Lestari Tbk cut down incense trees on communal land, repla
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