‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Mongabay
Dec 28, 2021, 10:36 am443 ptsHot
JAKARTA — In 2020, residents of Suka Mukti village in southern Sumatra paid 10 million rupiah each, about $700, to a government agency to obtain titles to their land — a process that is officially supposed to be free. This year, the same agency declared the certificates illegal because, it says, the land…

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