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View all search resultsThe government has vowed to compenate affected people fairly as unresolved issues related to land clearing, including relocating local inhabitants, continue to bog down progress in the IKN project as the clock ticks down to several milestones before Independence Day.
President Jokowi has not achieved agrarian reform as he had campaigned in 2014 on his Nawacita nine-point development agenda; instead, a civil group focusing on the issue has found that the number of land disputes and incidents of state violence have increased during his tenure.
Three years on since the Bener Dam project broke ground, the residents of Wadas village are still waiting for the government to sit up and listen to their protests against a planned quarry.
Lockdowns to contain the novel coronavirus in Asia have made farmers and indigenous people more vulnerable to losing their land, according to land rights activists who are backing new technologies to help track the growing number of conflicts.
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