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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. 

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Overview

Resource Type:
News
Publication date:
8 October 2013
Region:
Indonesia
Programmes:
Territorial Governance
Partners:
TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education)

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