As haze chokes Sumatra, farmers ask Jokowi for greater land rights

Mongabay
By Philip JacobsonSep 28, 2015, 2:10 am74 pts
Farmers in South Sumatra, an epicenter of Indonesia’s haze crisis, unfurled banners last week expressing their readiness to protect forests and peatlands from fire – and calling for President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to give them the land to so. One banner was plastered to the side of a bridge. Others were…

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