Key opportunities and strategies to advance indigenous peoples’ customary rights The decision of the Constitutional Court to remove the phrase “customary forest as state forest” from the Forestry Act No. 41/1999 and replace it with “customary forest is forest located inside indigenous peoples’ area” is a big victory in the campaign to get indigenous peoples’ land rights recognized. Such a decision provides some room for indigenous peoples to get recognition for their rights over the land where they live and with which they have close cultural ties. Realizing that more has to be done, the IP community continues to work hard for the passage of an Act that recognizes and protects IP rights. Also providing a ray of hope is the Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No.45/PUUIX/2011 on forest area. It pushed the government to accelerate the forest area establishment processes. Likewise cheered was the issuance of the One Map Policy to come up with integrated spatial data from different stakeholders including indigenous communities. Through this policy, community data will be included in the base maps to be integrated into the One Map. In line with this policy, indigenous peoples and AMAN in particular, together with JKPP, stepped up participatory mapping in IP areas. JKPP notes that, as of December 2013, the participatory mapped area covered 5,263,058.28 ha. Of the number, 4,973,711.79 ha are under customary right. Further, if the data of customary land are overlapped with forest area map data, Figure 1. Land uses within the indigenous territory (JKPP.2013) approximately 81% or 4,050,231.18 ha forest area are located inside customary land. It means that only 19% of the area is left for the IPs to control as their customary areas. It is also worth noting that close to half of the customary area is covered by permits given to the forestry, mining and palm oil sectors (Widodo, 2014). The major challenge left following the spread and acceleration of participatory mapping is the recognition of those maps by the government. Another problem still faced today in the establishment of forest areas and in solving the overlap in Land Cultivation Rights Titles is the need for matching spatial information that can be the common basis for argument of the different stakeholders. There is also difficulty in getting the participatory mapping of customary areas inputted in the Jaringan Data Spasial Nasional (JSDN) or the National Spatial Data Network. Thus, to accelerate the process of recognizing customary Lok Niti 67