Indigenous Rights

Locals contest national citizenship rights in North Maluku

Compromises must be made in the quest for indigeneity among the Dayak Meratus

Tarakan’s riots illustrate the risks of collusive public contracting and the continued weakness of local security responses

A small community in Southeast Sulawesi is engaged in an ongoing quest for recognition of its right to live on its ancestral land

Direct local elections have led to new developments in the struggle for land rights in East Kalimantan

Central Java farmers refuse to get stuck in cement

BP’s massive LNG project is due to begin operations in late 2008, despite social and environmental costs

Volunteers bring alternative education to marginalised communities

Forestry business packaged in ecological concerns in Flores

Orang Rimba assert their rights

Do resettlement failures justify deforestation?

The interests of local people aren’t served by keeping them out of national parks

For the Forest Tobelo people, regional autonomy is a mixed blessing

What happens when wandering sea nomads have to settle?

Observing social change in Papua