Indonesia's top court on Friday rejected an appeal by an Indigenous tribe in its lawsuit against a palm oil firm, leaving it at risk of losing vast swathes of ancestral forest, rights groups said. The ...

JAKARTA, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Indonesian indigenous people gathered on Sumatra island on Friday to call on the government to protect their land rights as fears grow ...

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi Indigenous tribes protest in front of Indonesia's Supreme Court - Copyright AFP BAY ISMOYO Representatives of the Awyu and Moi ...

Indonesia's top court on Nov. 1 rejected an appeal by an Indigenous tribe in its lawsuit against a palm oil firm, leaving it at risk of losing vast swathes of ancestral forest, rights groups said. The ...

The lush jungle of Halmahera Island in Indonesia has been eaten away by the world's largest nickel mine - Copyright AFP STR The lush jungle of Halmahera Island in ...

GAJEBOH, Indonesia (Reuters) - High in the lush hills of far western Java, an animist tribe lives a peaceful existence, untouched by the turmoil of the financial crisis. The Baduy, who are estimated ...

The Indonesian government, which acknowledges most of the concession was previously protected forest, told AFP otherwise. There is "recognition of evidence of the existence of isolated tribes around ...

Jack Moore and Bagus Saragih AFP May 27, 2025 45 mins ago 0 Ngigoro, an elder of the Hongana Manyawa Indigenous tribe, says his ancestral forest is being transformed by mining Ngigoro, an elder of the ...

Deforestation at one of Indonesia's largest nickel processing hubs is threatening an Indigenous group that is among the country's last uncontacted tribes, rights groups allege.

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia -- Indonesia marked 79 years of independence Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure on Jakarta but ...

In forests a few hours' drive from Indonesia's capital, there will be no presidential election campaigning by an Indigenous tribe that cares little for the outside world.