Country:

Indonesia

Region:

Asia

Date:

2020

Implementor:

Hutan Rakyat Institute (HaRi)

Funding Amount:

$22,650

Details:

With funding support from RRI’s SRM, the Hutan Rakyat Institute (HaRi) mobilized civil society organizations (CSOs) to advocate for the issuance of a provincial regulation enabling the registration of IP territories in North Sumatra as an innovative way of protecting IP collective tenure rights. The advocacy was successful, and on November 23, 2020, the North Sumatra Regional assembly (DPRD) approved the CSO draft as being a formal DPRD initiative to be passed within three months. A task force is to be set up at provincial level to identify the Adat Communities and their territory — potentially five million people, or up to 30% of North Sumatra population occupying half a million hectares of Adat territory. The civil society coalition will ensure that CSO are members of this task force.