A Land Dispute from the Days of the Dutch Colonial Court
In the City of Padang, a dispute over 765 hectares of customary community land has been ongoing since before Indonesian independence. The police have accused the Marboet people of being a land mafiosi.
Riky Ferdianto
January 31, 2022
Over a year and a half later, after the main suspect died, criminal investigators at the West Sumatra Police Department’s General Crimes Investigation Directorate began taking another look at a land mafiosi case in Koto Tangah, Padang, on Thursday, January 20. The police held a case progress review because the West Sumatra Provincial Attorney General’s Office (AGO) asked them to complete the interrogation file before submitting i
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