Planting Dreams

In the middle of the current weak economy, the oil palm industry is pulling in trillions of rupiah and providing jobs for hundreds of workers.

August 22, 2006

LITTLE by little, Marnis piggy bank is beginning to fill up. Even though every day this 33-year-old Dayak woman still has to labor under the heat of the burning sun planting palm oil seeds, she is all the more determined: both her two sons who are still at junior school will have the benefit of higher education. My husband says that its best if they go to college in Java, said this woman from the Subdistrict of Cempaga, East Kotawaringin, in the

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