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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02 December 2024
The global transition to renewable energy depends on critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel, but their extraction raises significant challenges for land rights, environmental sustainability, and equitable benefit sharing. In this webinar, experts from Zambia, Uganda, Indonesia, and the…
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Research shows that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities with secure rights experience lower rates of deforestation, store more carbon, hold more biodiversity, and benefit more people than lands managed by either public or private entities. Yet while Indigenous Peoples and…
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