Feeding Families with Indonesia's Agrarian Reform

Tomorrow is Human Rights Day, and we're putting a spotlight on Mangkit, Indonesia to celebrate land rights defenders who stand up for their rights to achieve dignity, freedom, and justice - this year’s theme.

“Before land redistribution, our family was very poor. But after we got our land rights, we could toil on our farm and plant chillies, cloves, and nutmeg. Our yields made it possible for me to open a “warung” (small shop), to educate my children, and even to have social gatherings."

- Anci Tatawi, Farmer, Mangkit, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

For decades, Anci Tatawi together with hundreds of Mangkit villagers had been entangled in a land dispute against PT Asiatik, a coconut plantation company...

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NLC Indonesia, known by its Coalition members as the National Conference of Agrarian Reform (KNPA), worked with the Mangkit people, the Southeast Minahasa Peasants’ Union, civil society and the local government to push for participatory and inclusive land reform.

In 2018 - on the occasion of ILC's Global Land Forum (GLF) in Bandung, Indonesia - President Joko Widodo signed an order to accelerate the country’s land reform process.

444 hectares of land were returned to local communities and 1,050 land certificates were given, 400 of them to women from the community.

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