Suasto’s Coral Reefs
Inspired by a television program, a fisherman in Jambi Anom hamlet, along with his peers, rehabilitated coral reefs they had previously damaged. Some of them deemed it an attempt to compensate for their sin.
April 20, 2011
BY dusk, the boat had only just come ashore. Carrying his catch, Suasto, 44, plunged into water, helping the boat master fasten the rope to a pole at the jetty in the fishermen’s settlement in Jambi Anom hamlet, Medana village, Tanjung district, North Lombok regency. He no longer fishes at sea as frequently as before. “When there’s no construction work, I go fishing,” he told Tempo English Edition, in the hut of a group of local fisherme
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