From Paddy Fields to Soccer Fields

Despite there being drought in several regions of Indonesia, national rice stocks are considered to be sufficient.

July 9, 2002

IT'S almost as is if everywhere you look, you can see signs of drought. Although weather experts have emphasized that this is in fact nowhere as bad as many people are saying, for Alan, 28, the disaster of the current dry season appears to be unending. This young farmer from the village of Pamekaran, Jatisari district near Karawang, West Java, is worried to the core of his very being. His paddy fields have almost no water and what he has plant

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