Peasants Rise Up (Indonesia): Petani Bersuara, Petani Menuntut

PAN Asia Pacific’s No Land, No Life! Campaign, together with the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), has launched the Peasants Rise Up broadcast series. The series, hosted by Bobby Ramakant of Citizen News Service and Christina Sayson, tackles landlessness, corporate control of agriculture, human rights, and other issues currently faced by the peasantry across Asia. The Peasant Rise Up series is part of the Global People’s Summit for a Just, Equitable, Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems. It celebrates the success stories of the peasant movement and highlights the call for land to the tillers as necessary for a truly radical food systems transformation.

In the second episode focusing on Indonesia, Asnia of Seruni and Udin Masi of (Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria) AGRA Sulawesi shared on working conditions of rural women on palm oil plantations in Riau province and land grabbing in Central Sulawesi.