Indonesia’s indigenous peoples will have to keep waiting for a promised task force on their rights

Mongabay
Mar 18, 2017, 8:19 am147 pts
TANJUNG GUSTA, Indonesia — Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki was the object of a forceful gesture yesterday when a Papuan man approached the stage on which he was sitting during a rare indigenous peoples congress now underway in this Sumatran village. “Here are eight arrows — in eight months, a…

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