On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Mongabay
May 15, 2019, 6:34 am301 pts
KALIBIRU, Indonesia — For years, Parjan hoped his community might one day gain title to the Menoreh Hills. The green valley northwest of the Javan city of Yogyakarta was tilled and tended to by generations of the same families as sultans came and went. In 1938, the Dutch colonial administration evicted the…

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