It is not easy to imagine the spread of these cattle ranches. On paper, the Mataranka land in the Northern Territory of Australia-420 kilometers southeast of Darwin-was listed at 125,000 hectares, or twice the size of Jakarta. End to end, it stretches for 80 kilometers, longer than the distance between the National Monument in Jakarta to Bogor.

"We are just small farmers," said Rohan Sullivan, 51, owner of the farm, to Tempo, who visited him last