Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Mongabay
Apr 25, 2024, 12:40 am208 pts
BELITUNG ISLAND, Indonesia — Nasidi paddled gently past a row of the eponymous rasau trees that line the riverbanks here in Tebet Rasau village, where a decade ago people would wade into the Lenggang River to catch silverfish. But life along the river here in the hills of Belitung Island, he said, is not as…

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