Brao, Kreung Communities Receive 4,000 Hectares in Ratanakiri

Around 4,000 hectares of state forests have been transferred to collective ownership by indigenous groups in Ratanakiri, according to government decrees. The process of issuing communal titles for indigenous groups has been a slow process, established in 2009 and requiring three steps: official recognition of an indigenous community, registration of the community as a legal entity, and issuance of a title.

But as of 2019, just 150 of an estimated 455 communities had been recognized, 139 registered, and 24 received land titles, according to a civil society forum at the time.

A set of government decrees released on Friday allocated 1,217 hectares of state forest to Kreung collective ownership in O’Chum district’s La’ak commune; 1,986 hectares of forest and a further 62 hectares of a biodiversity corridor to a Brao community in Taveng district’s Taveng Loeu commune; and and 762 hectares to another Brao community in a different village in the same commune.

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