Cambodia puts its arduous titling process for Indigenous land up for review
by Danielle Keeton-Olsen on 15 April 2021
Since 2009, Cambodia has had a legal process by which Indigenous communities can obtain legal title to their traditional land.
Of around 455 Indigenous communities in Cambodia, 33 have been granted land titles.
People who have engaged in the Indigenous land titling process say it is time-consuming and arduous, and that even successful claimants are often granted title to just a fraction of their customary land.
This year, Cambodia has launched a review of its communal land titling process. Even people involved in the review are unsure what prompted it or what impacts the review might have.
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Spring is the best time of the year to visit Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces where travelers stroll in pine forests, explore local culture and enjoy the cold breeze there.
A view of Bien Ho Lake. – Photos: Nhan Tam
The first destination we visited was the old pine forest which is 20 kilometers from Pleiku City. Locals named a path lined by hundred-year-old pine trees in the forest in Nghia Hung Commune “Love Street” because of its romantic setting. Strolling on the one-kilometer street in the warm spring sunshine and taking some photos with these ancient trees were the first great experiences to gain.
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22 Feb 2021 Story
Community Concerns
The Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Project is located on the Sesan River, Stung Treng Province, Cambodia, below the confluence of the major Sesan and Srepok tributaries and about 25km from the Mekong River. The communities impacted by the project largely depend on the land and natural resources along the river. According to the affected communities, the dam project has caused major adverse impacts to their ancestral land, their livelihoods and traditional practices, whereas these impacts have not been properly addressed or compensated.
Land returns after complaint to World Bank offer hope to indigenous villagers
by Sun Narin
Lmam Pjanh, a Kachork ethnic village, stands inside her simple wooden house in the northeast Cambodia’s Rattanakiri province. Photo: Sun Narin/VOA Khmer
KAK VILLAGE, Rattanakiri Province Lmam Pjanh recently sat on a mat in her simple wooden house and recalled the times when Kak Village, situated in a bend of the Sesan River, was a place of plenty.
Until the late 1990s, she said, the ethnic Kachork village in the rolling hills of Cambodia’s remote, northeastern Ratanakkiri Province was surrounded by thick forests in which the villagers would create clearances to farm dry rice and let their animals graze. Nearby, small streams and the Sesan teemed with fish.