The ‘Greening’ of Indonesia

South Sulawesi hopes to become the world’s seaweed commodity center by 2013. What has it prepared?

March 4, 2008

ONE day, six years ago Haji Said Daeng Sitaba, 60, watched a television show presenting a seaweed cultivation program. The government in this program suggested that all coastal community members grow seaweed because it could provide a better source of income. Interested in this idea, Sitaba and Haji Nimbang, his neighbor, started cultivating seaweed in Bonto Ujung, Takalar regency, South Sulawesi. They were pioneers among seaweed farmers achievin

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