https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBocn14DKmg Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary-General of Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN), gives a statement on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exasperated existing threats to land rights and heightened conflicts and criminalization of Indigenous peoples in Indonesia. Detailing resilience tactics,..
Amid the pandemic, six Indigenous villagers, including Kinipan community leader Effendi Buhing, and two Indigenous youth, were arrested by the Central Kalimantan Police, in Indonesia, for defending their customary forest against the expansion of PT Sawit Mandiri Lestari..
On 9 March 2020, six members of the indigenous Dayak community were acquitted from criminal charges involving their practice of berladang, a traditional swidden farming system practiced by indigenous peoples in Indonesia. They were blamed for causing karhutla,..
Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), a global indigenous organization, strongly condemns the recent arrest of and trumped-up charges against six indigenous villagers in Kinipan village in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
