Indigenous Indonesians file land claim against IndoMet coal project

Mongabay
By Philip JacobsonJun 24, 2015, 5:06 am91 pts
A few months before BHP Billiton’s Haju mine is set to begin operations in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, residents of nearby Maruwei village have filed a claim for 1,000 hectares of land in the area under a new land rights scheme for indigenous peoples. The scheme, called Dayak Misik and…

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