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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — President Joko Widodo recently issued Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in Indonesia more than 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of land titles, under his flagship social forestry program. As a result, the government has recognized IPLCs’ rights over 8 million hectares (19.77 million acres) of lands in Indonesia. These include various forms of social forestry titles, such as village forests, community forests, plantation forests and ancestral or customary forests. But the pace of recognition for IPLCs’ rights to their lands is not fast enoug…

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