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Rusmedia Lumban Gaol

Indonesia

Indigenous leader from Pandumaan Sipituhuta, North Sumatra. She is struggling to protect her ancestral frankincense forest seized by PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL). She leads groups of women to protest and to continue to maintain traditional land that has been occupied for generations for more than three hundred years of its ancestors.

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