Country:
Indonesia
Region:
Asia
Date:
2020
Implementor:
LBH (Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation)
Funding Amount:
$9,998
Details:
With RRI’s support, Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation provided legal assistance to 43 Indigenous individuals in Indonesia criminalized for resisting their eviction by WKS company which was backed by security forces. The individuals were sentenced to serve up to two years in jail. The Foundation worked with peasant organizations to ensure documentation of several abuses — from land conflict, abuse of social scheme by the company to extend operation area, to violation of judicial guarantees in the prosecution. They also used RRI support to publish a book documenting the stories of the Indigenous farmer communities, and the facts of the land conflict and criminalization.