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Indonesia urged to implement decision recognizing indigenous rights to land
2013-12-10 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous rights groups are circulating a petition asking the Indonesian government to immediately implement a court ruling that would take management of million of hectares of customary forest out of the hands of the Ministry of Forestry and turn it over to traditional communities. The petition was posted on Change.org by Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), a group whose request for review of the country's 1999 forestry law prompted the Constitutional Courts decision on the...
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