Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice

Mongabay
Jun 6, 2023, 2:40 am154 pts
TALANG PARIT, Indonesia — For more than two decades, the residents of this Indigenous community in Riau province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, have watched as their lakes dried up and the rainforest dwindled. “The forest is gone,” Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader, told…

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