Land conflicts flare across Asia during lockdowns

Pandemic has made farmers, indigenous people more vulnerable to losing their land. FMTNews

Farmers, indigenous people have been unable to tend to their fields, making it easier for illegal loggers and companies to encroach their lands.

Worldwide, farmers have been unable to tend to their fields, and some indigenous people kept from forests because of restrictions on movement, making it easier for illegal loggers and companies to encroach their lands, analysts said. In Indonesia, two farmers were killed in March in clashes over a long-standing land dispute with a palm oil firm in South Sumatra province, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment , an environmental group.

In India, authorities have relaxed environmental norms for mining and industrial projects, with the lockdown making it impossible for people “even to resist” the threats to their land, said Tushar Dash, an Indian forest rights campaigner.

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