THE notes on the crumpled piece of paper are kept in the drawer of Hasan Roy’s food stall. The notes are the debts of his customers. These debtors are Bojakan villagers in North Siberut, West Sumatra. “They became poor after years of high living as landlords,” said Hasan last week.

Over the last six years these villagers were the owners of the land leased to a company holding the forest concession in Siberut, one of the islands of the Ment