During the Amazon Synod (2019), the Pontiff reinforced the Church’s commitment to defending Indigenous sovereignty, urging ...

See All Key Ideas JAKARTA — Hundreds of Indigenous people and civil society groups in Indonesia are demanding an end to ...

The members of the hierarchy need to become concerned about social issues and the well-being of fellow Catholics ...

For the Akit tribe of Bengkalis and Pelalawan districts in Riau province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, land is more than just soil beneath their feet: it is their identity, their lifeblood, ...

Speaking up: An Orang Asli women’s collective, Apa Kata Wanita Orang Asli, standing up for their rights. Ideally, South-East ...

Singh’s work explores shamanism as a practice rooted in humanity’s desire to control uncertainty. He defines shamans as ...

Kathmandu—Southeast Asia has not been at the forefront of promoting human rights, much less the rights of indigenous peoples, where the region’s record is even darker and more concerning. Indonesia, ...

Despite losing most of their customary forest, Ngata Toro Indigenous community in Central Sulawesi still vowed to protect nature.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

While Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, the indigenous peoples of West Papua are almost completely Christian. West Papua was made a colony of the Netherlands in 1898 ...