Friday, September 19, 2014

Indigenous Peoples and Forests: Mina Setra, Deputy Secretary General of the Indonesian Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago

The Public Policy Indonesia program and the UMD Environmental Council at the School of Public Policy have the honor of welcoming Mina Susana Setra tomorrow, Friday September 19th at 4:00pm in Room 1107 in Van Munching Hall. Please join us.

Ms. Setra is Deputy Secretary General of the Indonesian Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara or AMAN). She is from the Dayak people, an indigenous group of Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). She will discuss Indigenous Peoples Rights and Forests in Indonesia.

This is an opportunity to meet and talk with one of the key people involved in working with the President of Indonesia and others to constitutionally establish communal rights to forests in one of the three remaining great tropical rainforests (Indonesia). AMAN is involved internationally with efforts to manage forests more sustainably through community/indigenous forest rights and to address the problem of deforestation particularly as a driver of climate change.


If you’d like to read more about indigenous and community forest rights and climate change, see here:

For more about AMAN’s work, see here:


Thomas C. Hilde
Director, Indonesia and Peru programs
University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow
Harvard University, Safra Center for Ethics
Office: 301-405-6330
Mobile: 202-321-7384
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/faculty/thomas-hilde

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