‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom

Mongabay
May 23, 2022, 12:00 am278 pts
When the Indigenous villagers of Tebing Tinggi agreed to give control of their ancestral land to a palm oil company in 1995, it promised to transform their fortunes. The Suku Anak Dalam were subsistence farmers, gathering fruit and hunting game in the rainforest. The deal could give them a cut of a lucrative…

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