Tebtebba E-Newsletter: Indonesia's Batak Keen on Recovering Grabbed Lands
Source: Tebtebba
NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia, (Tebtebba Indigenous Information Service) – Manuhap Pandiangan easily climbed a 10-inch-diameter straight tree through two small pieces of two-foot long hard wood tightly fastened around the tree with a nylon rope. Then he uttered some prayers, and—around the tree up to about over 20 feet (5.88 meters) high—pierced the tree’s bark with a sharp knife, leaving several wounds on the tree’s bark.
Source: Tebtebba
NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia, (Tebtebba Indigenous Information Service) – Manuhap Pandiangan easily climbed a 10-inch-diameter straight tree through two small pieces of two-foot long hard wood tightly fastened around the tree with a nylon rope. Then he uttered some prayers, and—around the tree up to about over 20 feet (5.88 meters) high—pierced the tree’s bark with a sharp knife, leaving several wounds on the tree’s bark.
Read the rest of this article in Tebtebba's October E-Newsletter.
Información General
- Tipo de recurso:
- News
- Fecha de publicación:
- 8 octubre 2013
- Región:
- Indonesia
- Programas:
- Gobernanza territorial
- Socios:
- TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education)
