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Indonesia: Forest people 'disillusioned' in battle to protect land

2013-11-26 12:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: For 15 years, the indigenous people of the Long Teran Kanan community, in north Malaysian Borneo, battled with Malaysian business conglomerate IOI-Pelita over land the group had long occupied and cultivated. The palm oil company had been granted the use of the land by the government, and sought to prove the community did not own it -- which would mean the company owned the community nothing, apart from the already-paid compensation for one season's crops. But the Kayan and Kenyah people who...

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