Land conflicts flare across South-East Asia during coronavirus lockdowns


JAKARTA: Lockdowns to contain the Covid-19 (coronavirus) in South-East Asia have made farmers and indigenous people more vulnerable to losing their land, according to land rights activists who are backing new technologies to help track the growing number of conflicts.

More than 4.4 million people have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally and about 300,000 have died, according to a Reuters tally.

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