“The joy of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples ... advocacy group of its kind in Indonesia, called the exclusion of customary land maps from the national database contrary ...

With more than 17,000 islands and a combined land and sea area that is the seventh-largest in the world, Indonesia has a wide range of official maps, including for mining permits, free-trade zones ...

Indonesia is probably larger than you think it is - much bigger than it looks on the world map. And with a population of about 275 million people, it's also the third-largest democracy in the world.

said Mr Adi Pradana at the World Resources Institute Indonesia (WRI). "The One Map, as well as the Omnibus law, could overlook the participatory maps and participatory conflict resolution process ...