The Impacts of REDD + to The Protection of Indigenous People’s Rights in Developing Countries Based on International Law Perspective

Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: sri.wartini@uii.ac.id

Abstract

The paper is aimed to analysed comprehensively the impacts of REDD + to the human right of indigeneous people in developing countries based on International law perspective. The impacts of climate change is not only to the environments, such as drought, flooding, and raising of the sea level, but also to the economic and social life. Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a key component in the global strategy to mitigate climate change. However, the REDD+ program potentially causes human rights violation to the rights of indigeneous people in developing countries, if there is no respect of the rights of the indigenous people and the host state do not prepare well concerning the regulations and institutional bodies to cope up with the REDD+ implementation .The research is normative juridical research by applying historical, and conceptual, statutory and comparative approaches. The results of this research indicate that the implementation of REDD + in most developing countries still potentially cause the violation to the human right of indigeneous people , if the REDD+ is not conducted in accordance with the Paris Agreement the ILO Convention as well as UNDRIP. Hence, there are some measures that can be carried out to prevent the violation of human rights to indigeneous people in implementing the REDD Program in Developing Countries. However, it is believed that there are some challenges and opportunities concerning the implementation of REDD + in developing countries.