In rural Indonesia, women spearhead the fight to protect nature

Mongabay
Dec 27, 2017, 10:07 pm187 pts
GARUT, Indonesia — It was, at first sight, a typical scene for the Ath-Taariq Islamic boarding school in Indonesia’s West Java province: some 50 people, most of them women, gathered together to sing the national anthem. But there was a deeper meaning in the air as they sang the anthem’s little-known third…

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