Forbidden Food on Ancestral Land
A resident of Bengkalis, Riau, from the Sakai tribe, was sentenced to a year in prison and fined Rp200 million for cutting down some acacia trees on land claimed by a company. The judges are suspected to have misapplied the law.
Tempo
June 2, 2020
BONGKU bin Jelodan said goodbye to his wife, Juli, on the morning of Sunday, November 3, 2019, as he went to clear some land in the forest in the Duri II District in Bengkalis, Riau, a work which he had begun the day before. The resident of the Suluk Bongkal hamlet in Bengkalis, had farmed the same plot of land there for years. He was planning on planting more bitter cassava there.
This father of four walked to the forest, which is about three k
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