Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The rising number of extractive-based activities has escalated natural-based conflicts and environmental damages across Indonesia, NGOs reported.

Jakarta – Agrarian conflicts in palm oil plantation areas – followed by the criminalisation of local residents who object to these palm oil plantations – have in creased two-fold in 201

Nurfika Osman, Jayapura – While Papua has long had a reputation among many Indonesians for being inhospitable to outsiders, a small island there is proving naysayers wrong.

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Some people have given up on the dream of owning land in Jakarta due to financial constraints, but many more pursue the dream through land brokering services,

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – A century-old mess in the land certification system coupled with corrupt officials and opportunistic local people have exacerbated conflicts over land ownersh

Jakarta – The draft law on land acquisition soon to be submitted to the House of Representatives will ensure fair compensation to residents displaced by public infrastructure projects,

James Balowski, Jakarta – At around 2.30am on June 28, a group of men arrived at a major news distribution outlet in Central Jakarta.

Nivell Rayda & Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch have reacted strongly to reports that police in Bengkulu Province sexually harassed and physically abused 50 villagers in

Stephanie Riady, Jakarta – The elderly widow of one of Indonesia's independence heroes has won a battle of David and Goliath proportions against state pawnshop company PT Perum Pegadaia

Ulma Haryanto – Three widows are anxiously waiting for Tuesday.

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Residents of Sebalang village, Lampung, have urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to immediately name suspects in what they allege to be a

Arientha Primanita – A legislative watchdog on Thursday urged the City Council to be more open and transparent over the alleged bribes received by some of its members investigating the

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Farmers and exporters in Lampung who had secured loans with coffee from Bank Tripanca are now demanding the return of their collateral after the bank's

Mataram – At least 500 tobacco farmers in East Lombok staged a rally at the West Nusa Tenggara administration office Monday demanding continuity in kerosene subsidy and price hikes in t

Ulma Haryanto – A class-action suit against the Tangerang administration is in order, academics at the University of Indonesia said on Thursday, over attempts to evict forcibly at least

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Disappointed by a protracted land dispute, thousands of villagers in South Sumatra have reclaimed plantation land managed by state-owned plantation company PT

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Local residents and fishermen have allegedly been barred from accessing a beach on Tolandona island in Wakatobi, South Sulawesi, that has been leased to a foreigner.

The Jakarta office of the International Committee of the Red Cross says as far as it knows negotiations are ongoing over the agreement under which it operates in Indonesia, covering its

Jakarta – Indonesia should investigate allegations of prison brutality in insurgency-wracked Papua province, a rights group said Friday, citing rampant reports of torture, beatings, and

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – The Navy's Eastern Fleet has locked horns with villagers once again, challenging them to either peacefully resolve a dispute over land in South Malang, or

Jakarta – Hundreds of Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) members rallied in front of the Senayan City shopping mall Tuesday to demand the restoration of rights to the land on which the mall

Jaukak Gulton, a farmer activist aged 66, who was actively in the struggle over a land conflict in Mariah Hombang village, Hutabayu sub district, North Sumatra province, was found lifel

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – More than 150 villagers in Tulangbawang regency, Lampung, have sought protection from provincial authorities due to alleged intimidation from a private

Anne Barker – Recent monsoonal rains and wind have caused serious damage to homes, buildings and crops across East Timor.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – It has not rained in Yogyakarta for the past 10 days, and the local farmers are concerned this will lead to poor harvests.

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Jakarta – The so-called "partnership" between companies and farmers in the palm oil business needs to be reconsidered because it benefits big corporations, not farmers, say observers.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Trimurjo, Central Lampung – Vice President Jusuf Kalla says Indonesia must embrace hybrid rice to improve rice production and strengthen national food reserves.

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The government should stop a plan to introduce the wide use of a modified, high-tech rice hybrid as it will burden farmers, a farming NGO said Monday.

Julia Daia Bore – Over 500 settlers from Papua province of Indonesia (formerly West Papua) living at the 8-Mile Settlement outside the nation's capital are likely to be evicted today by

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – While the government expects to launch an ambitious national land reform program this year to distribute more than 9 million hectares of land, a rese

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has asked the Navy to allow residents to continue using disputed land in Pasuran, East Java, while awaiting a permanent co

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Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – Heartless speculators, a corrupt judicial system, an incomplete and untrustworthy land ownership database and greedy politicians.

Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – Land disputes seem to be a dime a dozen in Indonesia right now.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The security and defense commission at the House of Representatives warned Wednesday of a potential repetition of violent clashes as numerous cases of civi

Pekanbaru – Around 1,000 people from the Central People's Movement (SEGERA) have cancelled a May 1 overnight occupation of the offices of the Riau governor because their demands for an

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – A national land reform program aimed at redistributing state land to the poor has run up against a major obstacle: most of the land targeted in the progra

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The government will import another 500,000 tons of rice to help keep prices from rising further after monsoonal flooding across the country disrupted the product

Irwan Firdaus, Muara Bakti – Farmers living outside Indonesia's flood-hit capital said Monday they were struggling to survive after hundreds of square miles of land were inundated, dest

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Hundreds of angry people surrounded the office of the Timor Tengah Selatan regent Wednesday to protest marble mining he authorized near their village.

Jakarta – Hundreds of farmers from around the country staged a rally here Tuesday to protest against the government's plan to import 210,000 kilograms of rice, which they said could des

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Three police officers and dozens of villagers were injured during a clash over a land dispute in Kupang's Amarasi Selatan district late Monday.

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Residents of a village in West Lombok protested Tuesday outside the provincial forestry office in Mataram.

Adianto Simamora, Jakarta – Despite an ongoing land dispute and mounting protests from area residents, public order officers began demolishing the historic Menteng Stadium in Central Ja

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – At least 35 shops and makeshift kiosks were demolished Tuesday by the Tangerang regency administration to make way for the construction of the Ciputat overpass

Tangerang – Some 500 residents blocked Jl. Ciater Raya in Bumi Serpong Damai on Monday morning to protest being forced off their land.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Pasuruan – A small shop damaged by a passing Navy tank has sparked anger among hundreds of residents of four villages of Grati district in Pasuruan, East Java.The