Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

Mongabay
Mar 3, 2025, 8:05 am86 pts
JAKARTA/TANGERANG, Indonesia — Joy was mending his nets when a reporter from Mongabay Indonesia visited him last October in the fishing village of Ketapang in Tangerang district, on the northwestern outskirts of Jakarta. He said he planned to go out to sea later that afternoon. But to do so, he’d have to…

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Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

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