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30Oct Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

Voices of Coastal and Indigenous Women in the Tenure Circle

Jakarta, October 28, 2026 – Inequality in land and marine fishing area control in Indonesia's coastal areas continues to widen the poverty gap and marginalize vulnerable groups, especially fisherwomen and indigenous women. In a public forum entitled "Tenurial Meeting Circle: Certainty of Living Space for Gender-Responsive Coastal Communities for Food Sovereignty" organized by Landesa Indonesia in collaboration with the Gender Studies Study Program of the Graduate School of Sustainable Development, University of Indonesia (SPPB UI) and the Indonesian Traditional Fishermen's Union (KNTI) in Jakarta on Tuesday (10/27/2026), experts, academics, activists, and representatives of coastal women called for a real integration between tenure certainty, gender equality, and national food sovereignty.
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by Root Admin 30/10/2026
30Oct Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

Tenure system with gender perspective, food security, and mangrove ecosystem protection in Nagekeo and Ngada districts, East Nusa Tenggara

Governance of land access, control, and ownership is influenced by social relations, including gender relations. This implies that a gender and social inclusion (GESI) perspective is crucial in understanding land and natural resource rights and management. In Indonesia, gender and other social relations (e.g., ethnicity, socioeconomic class, social class, age, religion, marital status) operate within distinct but interconnected land and natural resource governance structures, ranging from the nuclear family, extended family/clan, community, market, and state. This Rapid Assessment seeks to understand how gender and other social dimensions shape land and natural resource governance and rights, and their relationship to food security and environmental protection in inland areas or mangrove conservation in coastal areas in Indonesia. This assessment focuses on land and natural resource governance in Other Use Areas (APL).
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by Root Admin 30/10/2026
08Oct Learning

Mangrove Restoration, Law and Land Tenure Webinar | Global Mangrove Alliance

This webinar features Associate Professor Justine Bell-James, an expert in environmental law and has published extensively on legal impediments to coastal restoration and legal issues concerning sea level rise, and Mark West and Mardha Tillah, from Landesa, an organisation that works with communities on land rights. They talk about Landesa’s mangrove work from Bay of Bengal and South-east Asia.
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by Root Admin 08/10/2026
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30Sep Policy

Tenure Options for Control and Utilization Mangroves in Other Use Areas

The area of ​​Indonesia's mangrove ecosystem, according to the 2024 National Mangrove Map, reaches 3,440,464 hectares (Ha),1 or 21% of the world's total mangrove area.2 The distribution of mangrove ecosystems in Indonesia is primarily in Papua, with approximately 45% of Indonesia's mangroves located in that region. The remaining 21.1% are found on the island of Kalimantan and approximately 19.4% in Sumatra.3 Mangrove ecosystems are important because they play a strategic role in protecting coastal areas from abrasion and storms, serving as habitats for biodiversity,4 storing carbon reserves, providing food sources, and providing cultural services such as ecotourism and rituals.
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by Root Admin 30/09/2026
30Sep Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

Transformative, Gender-Inclusive, and Socially Inclusive Land Administration

Land administration is a government policy that regulates the legal relationships between land and individuals, as stipulated in the 1945 Constitution and outlined in the Basic Agrarian Law (UUPA). Land registration administration is one of the priority programs of national land policy. This policy is part of the implementation of the 2000 agrarian reform through People's Consultative Assembly Decree No. IX of 2000 concerning agrarian reform and natural resource management. Within this framework, the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning (ATR BPN), as the entity responsible for and implementing land management and stewardship in Indonesia, ensures that, in Regulation No. 7 of 2020 concerning the Strategic Plan of the Ministry of ATR BPN, the registration of all land parcels in Indonesia will be completed by 2025.
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by Root Admin 30/09/2026
19Nov NewsPress Release

The Urgency In Strengthening the Land Administration and Registration of Customary Land

19 November 2025 marked a historical moment for the Patai Tribe and the Rematobi tribe in Yapen Island, as they received a copy of the Customary Land Register (DTU) from the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Body (ATR/BPN) during the event on Socialization of Customary Land Administration and Registration in Papua Province and Customary Territory Mapping. This event was attended by the Minister for Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of National Land Body, Nusron Wahid, together with the several provincial government in Papua ie Papua Province, South Papua Province, Central Papua Province and Papua Pegunungan Province, as well as government of the regencies of each province, and the Papua People’s Assembly (Majelis Rakyat Papua/MRP). This event is the continuing commitment from the government to recognise and protect the customary land of indigenous peoples. This significant achievement is the result of the implementation of the Decree of the Minister for Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Number 14 Year 2024 regarding the Implementation of Land Administration and Customary Land Registration (PermenATR/Ka BPN No. 14/2024), especially carried out by the Land Agency of Yapen under coordination of Land Office of Papua Region, in collaboration with Landesa Indonesia.
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by Root Admin 19/11/2025
17Jul Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

Land Tenure, Coastal Resources, and Community Assessment in the Nusantara Capital City

This report provides an in-depth study on five key issues in the Nusantara Capital City (IKN), namely, (i) the bundle of rights, (ii) land tenure administration, (iii) disparities in land tenure, (iv) conflict over natural resources, and (v) traditional practices of environmental conservation in coastal areas within protected and cultivation areas. This study focuses on the mangrove area, which in the IKN area covers an area of 11.668 hectares.
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by Root Admin 17/07/2025
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