Video: Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

Mongabay
Aug 1, 2018, 2:08 pm355 pts
One afternoon in 2017, an indigenous Dayak man named Kardie tracked us down to a hotel in Kuala Kurun, a one-horse town in the interior of Indonesian Borneo. He had heard that our small team of reporters was investigating an oil palm plantation firm that was cutting into the forests surrounding his village,…

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