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How Young Indigenous People Safeguard Customary Forests

Monday, October 13, 2025

A youth movement of the Knasaimos indigenous community in South Sorong, Southwest Papua, defends their ancestral forests, standing up to companies and illegal loggers.

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Klaogin River in Seremuk District, Knasaimos Land, South Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua. Doc. Greenpeace/Alif R Nouddy Korua. tempo : 176565624535.

THE ANGER that has burned inside 29-year-old Nabot Sre-klevat all his life has finally reached its breaking point. For more than two decades, he has watched giant ironwood or merbau trees (Intsia bijuga) fall in the customary forests stretching across Seramuk and Saifi Districts in South Sorong, Southwest Papua. Illegal logging has stripped their land bare. “It still goes on because of dirty deals between timber tycoons and those holdi

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Nur Hadi (Teminabuan) contributed to the writing of this article.

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