Logging Company's Concession in Customary Forest

LIKE a bolt of lightning on a clear day, Pelik Sababalat, 56, received word that his tribe’s customary forest was about to be cleared by a timber company. The leader of the Uma Sibagau indigenous community only learned in recent months that his ancestral land, which stretches across Mara and Nem-Nem Leleu villages in Sipora Selatan subdistrict, Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra, was included in a forest concession application fi