Recognition of Mentawai tribes marks Indonesia’s latest piecemeal concession to indigenous groups

Mongabay
Dec 15, 2017, 3:12 am245 pts
The indigenous inhabitants of Indonesia’s Mentawai district, a cluster of islands off the southwestern coast of Sumatra, are a step closer to reclaiming their ancestral rights to their land from the state, a development that has been years in the making. The Mentawai district legislature last month passed a…

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