that gives the national government superior authority over the land. More significant victories followed with the House of Representatives now preparing the draft of the Act on the Recognition and Protection of IPs Rights. But despite these emerging opportunities, indigenous peoples of Indonesia are still struggling to secure full legal recognition. JKPP notes that, as of December 2013, there were 5,263,058.28 hectares (ha) of participatory mapped area. Of the number, 4,973,711.79 ha are under customary rights. Further, if the data of customary land are overlapped with forest area map data, around 81% or 4,050,231.18 ha overlapped with forest area and around 2,637,953.94 ha overlapped with land permits (concessions, mining, palm oil, and industrial tree forest). Indigenous people of the Kapuas Hulu in West Kalimantan. Photo by JKPP. Lok Niti 61