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Peter Yeung

Freelance Journalist

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Peter Yeung is a Freelance Journalist covering climate, global health, migration and cities

August 04, 2023

'People of the forest': Indigenous Indonesians stake claim to land Climate Risks

Mino Nente, an elder of the Indigenous Wana people, holding a wooden blowpipe in North Morowali Regency on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on March 12, 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Peter Yeung

Scanning the vast green expanse of tropical rainforest surrounding his village, Mino Nente noticed a pair of branches twitch in the distant canopy. The 58-year-old narrowed his eyes, raised a long wooden blowpipe to his lips, and fired a dart.

The rustling in the trees turned out to be a gust of wind rather than an intruder, but Nente and his Indigenous community on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi remain ever-vigilant to threats to their land from development.

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