Komodo’s Indigenous People Evicted from Their Ancestral Land
Monday, September 15, 2025
The repeated displacement of the Komodo’s indigenous Ata Modo people, stretching from Dutch colonial rule to today’s local government.
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ALL his life, Firmansyah, 27, had only heard legends about Tepo Lima Boneng as a hunting ground for the Ata Modo—the indigenous people of Komodo—on Padar Island, inside Komodo National Park in East Nusa Tenggara. That place lived on in the community’s collective memory as a seasonal settlement and a site for food hunting, a tradition the Ata Modo call loang.
Those ancestral stories guided Firmansyah to the northern part of
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