Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

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Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

JAKARTA — Fear among Indonesia’s ruling class of losing control of natural resources to Indigenous people is why the country’s parliament continues to delay passing a long-awaited bill on Indigenous rights, according to activists. The bill was proposed in 2012 and has been placed on parliament’s list of national priority legislation every year since 2014, but never passed since. A lawmaker on the legislation committee discussing the bill now say…