Indonesian tribes gather to protect homelands

TANJUNG GUSTA, Indonesia: Thousands of Indonesian tribesmen gathered on jungle-clad Sumatra island on Friday, as indigenous people push the government to move faster to protect their ancestral homelands.

Some wore headdresses adorned with feathers and birds’ beaks, while others dressed in sarongs or brandished clubs at the meeting of more than 5,000 leaders from across the archipelago in the village of Tanjung Gusta.