Locally controlled forestry should be a major part of Indonesia's future

DUNCAN Macqueen became interested in forestry after spending his childhood in a small village outside Berastagi, North Sumatra. His parents were missionaries in Indonesia. Macqueen saw how a logging crew in the forest near his village would come in to cut down timber. "I noticed that none of the local communities really benefitted. That it was the outside people coming in and they were taking the trees," he said.

July 4, 2017