Reclaiming Adat Land
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Summit Conference on Adat Law took place last October in Jakarta, attended by legal experts from 22 provinces of Indonesia. They agreed that adat (customary) lawseen as the better defender of public interestmust be integrated into the state legal system. For so long, many adat people have suffered or been placed at a disadvantage when their lands were taken over by companies or confiscated by the government. Today, hundreds of legal aides and facilitators voluntarily help adat people to fight for their rights over their ancestral land. Tempo English reports from West Sumatra and South Sulawesi.
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A Victory for Customary Land
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