Indonesia protests: Land bill at center of unrest
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/proposed-new-law-on-land-use-at-center-of-indonesia-protests
Among a variety of pro-democracy demands, the protesters want lawmakers to scrap a controversial bill governing land use in the country.
The bill defines new crimes critics say could be used to imprison indigenous and other rural citizens for defending their lands against incursions by private companies.
It also sets a two-year deadline by which citizens must register their lands with the government, or else watch them pass into state control. Activists say the provision would deal a “knockout blow” to the nation’s indigenous rights movement.
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