In Sumatra, an indigenous plea to stop a coal road carving up a forest

Mongabay
Apr 8, 2020, 11:33 am232 pts
JAMBI, Indonesia — “If the forest is gone, where else can we live?” Teguh Santika is an indigenous woman from the Batin Sembilan community. Her home is in the Harapan forest in central Sumatra, one of the last remaining spans of lowland tropical rainforest left on the island, and a refuge for some of the…

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