Producing Ten Million Mangroves

THE 10 women and five men joked as they worked, putting handfuls of brown soil into thousands of polythene bags which would contain tinjang seedlings. They were working on a plot of idle fishpond land on the edge of the coast, ignoring the scorching heat of the day.

They spoke in a mix of Javanese and Madurese, talking about Mukarim. Subagyo, 25, and Sutikno, 23, smiled as they heard the workers discussing the achievement of their f

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