Country:

Indonesia

Region:

Asia

Date:

2014

Implementor:

Samdhana Institute

Funding Amount:

$49,990

Details:

Through the SRM, RRI supported a visioning exercise so that Indigenous Peoples could develop different scenarios regarding the future status of their ancestral domains by the year 2025. The exercise came about as a result of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court ruling in May 2013 on customary forests, which presented the opportunity for Indigenous Peoples to assert their constitutional rights on their ancestral lands. This project successfully articulated nine scenarios involving the possibility of both beneficial and harmful governance as well as beneficial and harmful IP movements. The scenarios were combined into a book entitled, Masyarakat Adat dan Tanah Airnya, which was launched December 2014. This project also effectively assisted Indigenous People in understanding the opportunities and challenges in the political sphere over the next 10 years.