Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Mongabay
Nov 7, 2023, 9:02 pm137 pts
SUMEDANG, Indonesia — Udit Surdiat only became a boat driver after he lost the rights to his farmland. The 63-year-old used to farm a hectare of land in Sumedang district, in Indonesia’s West Java province, until the family had to make way for the country’s second-largest dam. “My father was asked to…

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