Suherdjoko, Semarang – About 1,000 residents of Kebonharjo Kampung in Tanjung Emas district, Semarang, Central Java, clashed with police officers deployed to evict them on Thursday to make room for

Paulina Quintao – The government has been criticized for failing to properly control communities building permanent homes on state-owned land and for issuing warning notifications too late.

Ni Komang Erviani – Following several large rallies against the planned Benoa Bay reclamation project, the Bali Police have called on people not to stage demonstrations on weekends as protests may

Ni Komang Erviani – The Indonesian Hindu Religious Council's (PHDI) Sabha Pandita (high priests) have issued an edict declaring Bali's Benoa Bay a sacred area.

An environmental group and residents are intensifying their efforts to pressure the government into canceling a US$4 billion coal power plant project in Batang, Central Java as they fear the plant

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Allegations of bribery and corruption will further mire controversial land reclamation projects across Indonesia, already hotly contested by locals and environmentalists.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-023-2016

Johnny Langenheim – The battle over a controversial land reclamation project in Bali is reaching crisis point, with an official decision due any day on an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that

Pekanbaru – Hundreds of people attacked security officers and employees of forestry firm PT Rimba Lazuardi in the Peranap district, Indragiri Hulu regency, in Riau on Wednesday, burning down the co

Kupang – Residents of Kolhua subdistrict of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, have rejected the municipality's plan to develop a dam worth Rp 285 billion (US$20 million), saying that the project would ev

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Indigenous rights activists have called on the government to immediately complete the drafting of a long-awaited indigenous people's rights protection (PPHMA) bill to preve

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-017-2016

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Sorong – Indigenous communities in Klamono district, Sorong regency, West Papua, have called for the formulation of a regency bylaw on customary forests to provide greater legal

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN) has criticized the House of Representatives for not listing the recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous peop

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Yap Thiam Hien Foundation has named lawyer and activist Handoko Wibowo the 2015 recipient of the rights accolade for his relentless effort to fight for the land ri

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to hold a limited Cabinet meeting to review land-use rights in Papua at his office on Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Companies in land-use conflicts have turned increasingly hostile towards local communities, a year-end report from the Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) found.

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – The West Sumatra provincial administration has expressed optimism that it can complete a plan to hand over the management of 500,000 hectares of protected forests to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) has granted a petition to allow indigenous people to cultivate forests for their living in the 1999 Forestry Law, while it re

Jakarta – The land-distribution system in Jakarta, as well as in other Indonesian cities, which is based on price rather than social benefits is unfair to the poor and therefore violate

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN) has reminded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of the importance of his promise to establish a Presidential task force to pro

Venidora Oliveira – The Coordinator of Rede ba Rai (Network for Land) organization Roberto Aleixo da Cruz said land disputes continue to be a source of social conflict because a land law has not ye

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two years after a landmark ruling in 2013 by the Constitutional Court on the 1999 Forestry Law that invalidated the government's claim to customary forests, red tape c

Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans to move nomadic forest tribes into reservations as part of its solution for "empowering" communities threatened by massive loss of forests in southern Suma

Jakarta – Several Indonesian farmers' associations and activists on Tuesday submitted to the Constitutional Court a motion for a judicial review of the country's 2014 Plantations on Law, claiming i

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has warned the Yogyakarta administration not to violate residents' rights in its development of the Parangtritis

Jakarta – A petition for murdered activist Salim Kancil has been supported by 50,000 people and Rp 42 million (US$3,138) has been raised for his child's education.

Jakarta – A village chief in East Java has admitted to paying off three officers for protecting an illegal sand mining operation in his village.

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Jakarta – The National Police have launched an investigation against three police officers from a Lumajang precinct in East Java for their alleged role in last month's brutal death of local anti-mi

Jakarta – A team of House members have alleged that the Lumajang Police did not respond correctly to threats received by Samsul, or Salim Kancil, a 52-year-old villager from Pasirian district, Luma

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – In the long-running dispute about land rights in Yogyakarta, Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan has supported the position of the province'

Jakarta – Some 2,500 people took part in a demonstration in front of the State Palace on Tuesday, calling on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to reform agrarian law and set up a team to handle land d

Jakarta – The involvement of police and Indonesian Military (TNI) officers has exacerbated thousands of land conflicts in regions across the country, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Plans to revive a massive commercial agribusiness and biofuel plant in the Indonesian province of Papua violate the land rights of the indigenous and local communities who hav

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-115-2015

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Governor and Sultan Hamengkubuwono X has again insisted that Law No.

Jakarta – The process of evicting hundreds of street vendors from Jl.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-111-2015

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Ian Wilson, Murdoch, Western Australia – The violent evictions in Kampung Pulo have once again drawn attention to the politics of flood alleviation in Jakarta and the tenuous place of the city's po

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The governor of Yogyakarta's ban on non-indigenous citizens owning land in the province is not problematic, according to Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry

Jakarta – Twenty-one families from Semarang in Central Java have filed a lawsuit against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo over the demolition of their houses by the Indonesian Army.

Agus Maryono and Suherdjoko, Kebumen/Semarang – Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has called on the Army and local farmers in Kebumen to immediately take their long-standing dispute over the man

Jakarta – Residents from a flood-prone area in Jakarta clashed with city officials during a forced eviction on Thursday, prompting security forces to fire tear gas and water cannons.

Jakarta – As giant developers begin their mega projects, constructing islets for commercial purposes as part of a controversial coastal reclamation project to create 17 man-made islands, more than

Jakarta – Residents of the flood-prone area of Kampung Pulo in East Jakarta were involved in a clash with Public Order Agency officers on Thursday when the Jakarta City Administration was trying to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Following pressure from the private sector, the government has backtracked on its new regulation that requires forestry companies to allocate at least 20 percent of th

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Maharani said she was unable to hold back her tears when hundreds of uniformed men raided her neighborhood and started to throw her family's belongings out of the house.

Hunger Alert Case: AHRC-HAC-008-2015

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Adi Marsiela, Cipaku Village, West Java – The Cipaku village square is located, fittingly enough for this agrarian heart of West Java, in the middle of rice fields ringed by thickly forested hills.