Indonesia contains 17,508 islands, of which around 6,000 are populated. The total land area is just over 1.9 million km2. Its geographical location off mainland Southeast Asia places the country as particularly susceptible to natural disasters, including climate change. Indonesia is the fourth most populated country in the world with over 270 million inhabitants. Over 140 million people live on Java, making it the most populous island in the world. It is also the world’s largest Muslim country, making up 87% of the population.
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Total population
273,753,000
Urban population
55.3 %
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Women owning land
1.1 %
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08 November 2023
Hong Kong, October 26, 2023
TNI Angkat Udara (TNI AU) dalam hal ini Pangkalan Udara Muljono telah melakukan klaim sepihak terhadap ratusan rumah rumah di kawasan Simogunung sebagai Rumah Dinas milik TNI AU, klaim ini ditolak para warga yang selama ini telah puluhan tahun menempati rumah tersebut.…
09 March 2023
Mongabay Series: Oceans
Indonesia’s mangrove restoration will run out of land well short of target, study warns
by Cassie Freund on 9 March 2023
The Indonesian government’s mangrove restoration plan faces a major hurdle, according to a new study: less than a third of the target area is actually…
03 February 2023
Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Hadi Tjahjanto witnesses the installation of land boundary markers in the paddy field area in Doplang Village, Adipala District, Cilacap Regency, Central Java, Friday (3/2/2023), during the declaration of…
Customary tenure regimes are highly diverse across Indonesia, and include individualised and communal parcels, different means of transfer, and variation in local inheritance practices.
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12 February 2024
This webinar, the fourth of the Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) series, took place on February 9th, 2024, under the title “When carbon markets go wrong: How to ensure access to remedy for land tenure violations”. The webinar drew in 562 participants and featured panelists from…
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8 February, 2024 14:00-15:30 CET | 8:00-9:30 ET
Carbon markets promise to mitigate the climate crisis by increasing the absorption of carbon. All too often, communities living on land impacted by these markets lack access to information about the markets and are subject to violations of…
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