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Conservation is not new to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Forests, rivers, food spaces, and living areas have been managed through rules, traditions, knowledge, and practices rooted in the community's philosophy of life and passed down from generation to generation. These various practices show that conservation has long been alive and practiced by the community.

Conservation is often imagined as an effort to protect flora, fauna, and areas that are sterile from human intervention. Conservation areas are imagined as empty spaces, even having to be empty of humans.

The government and parliament have not been willing to provide information in the material review session of the KSDAHE Law at the Constitutional Court, which is considered a form of neglect of the rights of Indigenous and Local Communities over their managed territories.

The recognition of the Tanggedu Indigenous Law Community is an important step to ensure that rights, customary territories, and community governance receive real legal protection.

Carbon trading risks ignoring the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities if not preceded by legal recognition of customary territories. WGII emphasizes that forest protection must be based on rights recognition, not merely carbon market mechanisms.

This workshop in West Sumba brings together Indigenous Peoples, local government, and civil society organizations to promote the recognition and protection of local wisdom and ICCAs on Sumba Island. Based on Ministerial Regulation LHK No. P.34 of 2017 and Presidential Instruction No. 1 of 2023, this activity strengthens the role of knowledge, culture, and indigenous territories in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.

The Coalition for Just Conservation has filed a material review of the Conservation Law with the Constitutional Court, targeting articles that could criminalize traditional Indigenous practices and disregard their rights over customary and coastal territories.

Along with other panelists, WGII ​​Executive Coordinator Cindy Julianty presented a panel on "The Role of Society" at the International Islamic University of Indonesia (UIII) campus in Depok, West Java.