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 ...

By Basten Gokkon Indigenous leaders in Indonesia’s South Papua province have rejected a government plan to build a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A court handed down jail terms on eight indigenous people in Indonesia’s Christian-majority East Nusa Tenggara province amid a land dispute with a company owned by a Catholic diocese. The Maumere ...

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

Indigenous peoples play an important role in the global climate agenda. At the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, their work as forest guardians and protectors of ...

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.