STANDING in a small rice field, Agung supervised the sugarcane cutters who were working among the clustered sugarcane stalks. Despite the overhead midday sun, this 33-year-old man was not distracted. Once in a while, he would shout out, “Each bundle must contain 10 sugarcane stalks,” said the owner of this 10 hectares of sugarcane land in the village of Boyolali, Purwoasri district, East Java, on Thursday last week.

That afternoon, Agung was