Indonesian farmers refuse to budge for train line through karst landscape

Mongabay
Aug 16, 2021, 6:39 am253 pts
MAROS, Indonesia — Santuwo straightens the crease in the sarong that he often wears while working in his rice field in the village of Salenrang, in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province. The 55-year-old farmer is one of several who have refused to sell their land for a government-backed railway project. “I…

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