Cambodia Kui indigenous people walking over what used to be their farmland after it was cleared for the Lan Fen and Rui Feng rubber plantation in Tbeng Mean Chey District, Preah Vihear Province. Photo by CIYA A ccording to a study by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in 2012, there are an estimated 200,000 indigenous peoples in Cambodia, or a mere 1.2% of the country’s population. Another report by the NGO Forum of Cambodia (2008) estimates IPs in the country to number from 101,000 to 190,000, or 1.4 % of the population. Condensed from Scoping Study on the Access to and Control of Land by Indigenous People in Cambodia by NGO Forum on Cambodia. For more details of the case, contact: ngoforum@ngoforum.org.kh. The Cambodian government’s 2009 National Policy on the Development of Indigenous People (NPDIP) lists 24 different indigenous ethnic groups found in 15 of Cambodia’s 23 provinces (World Faiths Development Dialogue, 2008). Lok Niti 25

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