“People of the forest”: Indigenous Indonesians stake claim to land
Recognition of customary forests in Indonesia has been hailed for tackling land-grabbing and deforestation, but Indigenous leaders are demanding greater rights. PETER YEUNG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
“Useless for us”: New Indonesian capital excludes Indigenous, poor
RINA CHANDRAN and LEO GALUH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that the new capital city will uproot thousands of indigenous people, and offers little incentive for poorer residents in Jakarta to move…
Indonesia’s map project ignores Indigenous land, risks conflicts
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation An ambitious Indonesian project to create a single database of the country’s land area and stop conflicts is destined to flounder unless it includes maps created by Indigenous communities, advocates said on Wednesday. The One Map policy, rolled out a decade ago and meant to be completed by late 2020, aimed […]