Earlier this year, Indonesia’s Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry expressed its support for the contents of the White Book for Agrarian Reform: A Road towards National Sovereignty, drafted by the CSOs to provide their recommendations to the ministry on implementing effective and just agrarian reform that empowers rural communities and resolves conflicts. A March meeting resulted in the Minister’s commitment to use locations recommended by the CSOs as models of customary tenure rights recognition in the reform process. In addition, the Minister asked authorities in 13 districts to accelerate recognition of the adat community as a precondition for recognizing their territorial rights, and committed to issuing a new regulation on communal land recognition for adat territories.
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