In 2000, a group of farmers from an Indonesian mountain village were in the middle of protesting to regain rights to their ancestral land, when they were taken into custody. They were charged as criminals of the state, not knowing if or when they would be released to continue their struggle…
In this episode, we follow the story of the farmers of Bandungan and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI). We learn how a small rural farming community whose land had been seized by a military dictatorship in the 1960s organized themselves, and built unshakable community power to help fuel Indonesia's pro-democracy movement. And we begin to wonder if community power can rise up and take hold after years of suffocation by authoritarian rule.
Special thanks to Pratiwi Febry, Rakhma Mary Herwati and YLBHI- the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation.
This episode was produced by Jackie Sofia and Poorvi Chitalkar.
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