The parliamentarians organize hearings in local villages across the country.

Hearings are organized by the parliamentarians to give indigenous and tribal groups across the country space to present their position about the second draft of the land rights law and in order to prepare for the public debate. One meeting per indigenous and tribal group takes place, lasting three hours.

Three hours of time was not enough for local communities to understand the “jargon” of the law. This was taken by local stakeholders as disrespect to their right for free prior inform consent. Their discomfort was used by the Government as another argument to delay the public debate about the law.