No Peace In Harjokuncaran

For over 30 years, there has been no end to a raging land dispute between villagers of Harjokuncaran in Malang and the Indonesian Army (TNI). Three hamlets in that village have disappeared.

August 13, 2012

ASMUDIN tidied up his grey safari shirt. Moments later, he combs his hair and his beard with his fingers. He then fixes his cap. "How do I look? I don't look my age, do I? I am 61, actually, he told Tempo. And then he jumps, right up into an open truck that brings him to the Malang Land Agency in East Java, some 50 kilometers from his home.

Together with 800 Harjokuncaran villagers, from the Sumbermanjing Wetan district of Malang, Asmudin loudly de

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