Since the late 1980s, the Indonesian pulp and paper company Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL) has operated in North Sumatra, profiting of the destruction of over 17,000 hectares of natural forest, environmental degradation, and displacement of more than 13,000 Indigenous People. To counteract this, the women defenders of KSPPM have mobilized local communities, facilitated participatory action, and strengthened local women's voices, pushing for the acknowledgement of the project's violations of human rights. KSPPM, together with other human rights defenders, has managed to grant 11 Indigenous communities customary forest recognition as well as spare over 7,000 hectares of land from destruction.
