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Indonesia's Environmental Defenders Under Attack
42 mins·15:00, 17 Aug 2026
Indonesia's Environmental Defenders Under Attack
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Guest: Andreas Harsono, Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Across Southeast Asia, there's a familiar tension between economic development and environmental protection. Governments talk about growth, companies talk about investment, while communities often find themselves fighting to protect the forests, rivers and land they've depended on for generations. A new Human Rights Watch report, Grabbed Land, Silenced Justice, looks at what happens when those communities push back. Drawing on more than 50 cases from across Indonesia, it argues that Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders have increasingly found themselves facing criminal investigations and prosecutions after raising concerns about land rights and environmental harm. As Indonesia marks 81 years of independence on the 17th of August 2026, we explore the report, the people at the centre of it, and what lessons it holds for the wider region, with the report’s co-author, Andreas Harsono, who is also a Researcher with Human Rights Watch.
Image Credit: © 2024 Andreas Harsono/Human Rights Watch
Presenter: Juliet Jacobs
Producer: Juliet Jacobs
Grabbed Land Silenced Justiceindigenous resistanceland pollutionthe bigger pictureearth mattersenvironmental protectionenvironmental justiceindigenous land rightsland protectionindigenous activismforced evictionsindigenous rightsindigenous community rightsdeforestation
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