After decade of delays, pressure mounts on Indonesia to pass Indigenous rights bill

Mongabay
Apr 9, 2025, 4:15 am160 pts
JAKARTA — Rights activists have lambasted Indonesia’s parliament for delaying yet again a long-awaited Indigenous rights bill — stuck in limbo for more than a decade — even as communities continue to lose millions of hectares of land and face criminalization for defending their ancestral territories.…

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