State fishing village plan in Indonesian Papua sparks Indigenous opposition

Mongabay
Mar 31, 2026, 11:41 pm130 pts
Indigenous leaders in Indonesia’s South Papua province have rejected a government plan to build a state-backed fishing settlement on their ancestral land, highlighting growing tensions between national development programs and customary land rights in the country’s easternmost island. Members of the Wiyagar…

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