The History and Current Development of Indigenous People Movements in Indonesia

Ahmad Ridha Mubarak,Rabiatul Adawiyah

doi:10.33363/swjsa.v4i1.672

Abstract

This paper is based on an argument that discrimination against indigenous religion is a fact of the dynamics of policy interpretations. Therefore, the presence of indigenous people movements such as AMAN (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara), offers solutions for indigenous rights' violations, and it also serves as a place for discussion on existing and possible threats upon indigenous communities. The indigenous people movements aim to establish religious freedom as a means to promote indigenous religion rights, particularly the importance of customary land. On the one hand, the state recognizes the rights of indigenous people, but, on the other hand they are prosecuted with hard conditions in realizing their rights

Highlights

Indigenous religions have lost their rights and religious freedom; this is related to their land rights
AMAN (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara) movement reported that during 2020 there were 40 cases of discrimination or intolerance against indigenous peoples, most of these cases had happened in previous years, but continued to happen because it never got a solution
Apart from previous research, this paper aims to complete the subjective dimension in the analysis of AMAN's involvement as an umbrella that protects Indigenous people's rights

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Introduction

Indigenous religions have lost their rights and religious freedom; this is related to their land rights. AMAN (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara) movement reported that during 2020 there were 40 cases of discrimination or intolerance against indigenous peoples, most of these cases had happened in previous years, but continued to happen because it never got a solution. This indicates that discrimination is an everlasting matter for Indigenous religion. The involvement of indigenous movements such as AMAN aims to establish religious freedom as a means to promote indigenous religious rights, the importance of indigenous territories They have surveyed over ten million hectares of potential land claims, listed claims into online interactive maps, and otherwise stated that claims amount to over 40 million hectares of national-forest (Fisher, 2019)

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