Chapter 1 Context and Challenges from Grassroots Leadership and Popular Education in Indonesia

Supporting Indigenous Peoples to Defend Their Rights

13th Mar 2015 | Categories:

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LifeMosaic and The Samdhana Institute are serialising a new book: Grassroots Leadership and Popular Education in Indonesia. This month, Chapter 1: Context and Challenges provides an overview of the unprecedented challenges faced by communities, social movements and ecosystems in Indonesia and around the world. These include:

• A global rush for increasingly scarce resources; the risks of breaching multiple planetary boundaries which have enabled human life on Earth; increasing inequality; and an enormous loss of biological and cultural diversity.
• An Indonesian context where progress for community rights is being held back by large-scale land acquisition and growing agrarian conflict.
• Top-down models for social or environmental transformation, critiqued by interviewees and workshop participants in the course of this research.
• The influence of the doctrine that states that There is No Alternative to neo-liberal economics and globalisation.

Yet this chapter ends on a positive note, showing how, despite such challenges, there are alternatives that are being created around the world.

Chapter 1: Context and Challenges

The Introduction and Summary to the book has already been published here. Chapter 2: Leadership in Crisis will be published in April 2015. The rest of the book will be serialised throughout 2015 . The full version of the book will be published after the serialisation. Please subscribe to www.lifemosaic.net to receive the next chapters.

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Next Generation Leadership

We help create unique trainings for indigenous youth, focused on awakening their calling to defend their territories and providing them with the skills to facilitate participatory processes grounded in their own cultures.

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