The End Story of Indigenous Land

The environment and forestry ministry classifies forested areas on customary land in North Sumatra as a national forest. This is in breach of a number of regulations.

 

 

Tempo

May 22, 2022

TEN years after the Constitutional Court reinforced the position of indigenous community with regard to their land rights through ruling No. 35/2012, there are still agrarian conflicts over indigenous land in this nation. The takeover of indigenous land by the government and corporations, along with a systematic sidelining of their rights continues to this day.

The latest example is the takeover of land belonging to indigenous

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