Indonesia’s government persistently refuses to recognize Indigenous Peoples as rights-holders with authority over their lands, territories, and futures. On January 22, 2026, speaking at the World ...

The leader of an indigenous community on Indonesia’s Catholic-majority Flores island is suing a local government chief after accusing him of intimidating people opposed to a geothermal project that ...

JAKARTA — Hundreds of Indigenous people and civil society groups in Indonesia are demanding an end to government projects that have seized their lands, fueled violence, and stripped them of their ...

Eight Indigenous people, including two women from the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, have been sentenced to 10 months in prison by a court for vandalizing the signboard of the Church-owned ...

Lia Yewen is an Indigenous Miyah woman working to protect her ancestral land. Through her work with the Jakarta-based NGO ...

Indigenous peoples and student protesters staged several demonstrations in Indonesian Borneo in August in a bid to pressure local authorities to cancel plans for a 119,779-hectare (295,980-acre) ...

Over the last 30 years, 40% of Indonesia's mangroves have been cut down mainly to create fish and shrimp farms, destroying local ecosystems. But one small indigenous fishing village is changing that.