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Indonesian forests  to be returned to  indigenous peoples 

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Indigenous Indonesians could soon win greater control over their traditional lands, following a court ruling revoking governmental administration of forests customarily used by aboriginal groups.

The country’s constitutional court ruled in May that traditional forests should be controlled directly by rural Indonesians, rather than treated as public forests subject to industrial logging under licenses that are issued by the central government.

The ruling gives significant new land rights to a broad swathe of the Indonesian population, up to forty million of whom are from indigenous communities.

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Reported by Ben Whitford for Positive News UK
Posted Dec 2013
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