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Semunying

Konflik kelapa sawit di Semunying, Indonesia

Location

Indonesia

Released

May 2016

Duration

10:20

Tags
  • Fighting Big Corporations
  • Land Rights
  • Participatory-made film
  • Uncategorized

Jail is the reward for Momonus and Jamaludin to defend their ancestral lands. For 12 years already these Semunying indigenous territories have been controlled by P.T. In Ledo Lestari. Their dense forest had been turned into a palm oil plantation landscape. Although they have been persecuted and abused in their ancestral land, their fight is not extinguished.

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