‘This is our home’: The women fighting a company’s land claim on Indonesia’s Pari Island

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On Indonesia's Pari Island, local women are resisting PT Bumi Pari Asri's land claim, which owns approximately 90% of the island through freehold certificates and permits. This long-running dispute highlights issues of community land rights and corporate ownership over a decade.

Pari Island is at the centre of a decade-long land dispute which has seen local residents attempting to defend their community land rights against PT Bumi Pari Asri which says it owns about 90 per cent of the island via freehold certificates and right-to-build permits.