Mongabay: But proposed legal changes may sound more like a development model for oil palm expansion rather than an affirmation of indigenous rights to some. Malaysia’s government will for the first time grant ownership rights of land farmed by indigenous people, reports the Associated Press. Jaafar Jantan, a spokesman for the government’s Orang Asli Affairs Department, said that some 20,000 Orang Asli families will obtain permanent ownership of 50,000 hectares of rural land currently …