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While boasting in front of the international community of a commitment to grant 1.4 million hectares of customary forest in the next five years, the government was met with criticism of conflicting policies and increasing repression that put indigenous communities in a more vulnerable position.
Constitutional Court justices granted a judicial review petition against the Job Creation Law, allowing agricultural activities for indigenous communities in forest areas to fulfill daily needs, not commercial purposes.
Civil society organizations have demanded the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights as the Constitutional Court reviews the newly revised conservation law, which potentially enables the exclusion and criminalization of indigenous communities for defending their customary lands.
Activists have called on the Indonesian government to commit to UN biodiversity agreements that acknowledge indigenous communities' contributions to conserving nature while protecting their rights to customary land.
A number of activists staged a rally for forest and indigenous-communities' rights protection against deforestation and land exploitation near the Women 20 Summit, which was held in the Lake Toba region of Parapat, Simalungun regency, in North Sumatra, from Monday to Wednesday.
