(1) November 2013
Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’
Indonesia’s rainforests are facing “legal land grabs,” nongovernmental organizations have alleged. Its ancient communities are finding that ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation. (Jakarta Post)
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