Tag: Customary lands
Indigenous rights group highlights rise in land grabs under Jokowi’s watch
Indoleft News in Jakarta
The Nusantara Traditional Community Alliance (AMAN) and the Nusantara Traditional Community Defence Association (PPMAN) have highlighted the polemic over the forced...
How colonial puppeteer Indonesia uses ‘autonomy’ to disempower Papuans
On Thursday, 10 March 2022, thousands of Papuan people in the Lapago Wamena Cultural Area took to the streets to paralyse Wamena city. They...
Journalist ‘hauled in’ for police questioning at Malaysia land protest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A journalist has been taken in for police questioning while documenting the land struggles of Temiar Orang Asli, an indigenous community...
Rosa Koian: PNG is rich already, we just need to care...
COMMENTARY: By Rosa Koian
We all want change and we want that change to happen quickly.
Many of us feel deprived of certain opportunities and privileges...
NGOs accuse PNG government of foreign logging land grab
By RNZ Pacific
The Papua New Guinea government is planning to acquire more custom land and allow foreign companies to exploit it, claim two international...
Chris Overland: O’Neill’s ‘monstrous’ plan trashes traditional land legacies
OPINION: By Chris Overland in Adelaide
Recently, Keith Jackson's PNG Attitude has been publishing a discussion on some of the unhappy events that occurred as...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Don’t forget customary land, West Papua issues
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
On Friday, the 48th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting -- and all other related meetings...
