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Electricity-Independent Customary Village

Monday, July 24, 2023

The lives of the Masewo people changed since their village was electrified. Masewo villagers are more privy to the outside world.

 

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A hydropower plant in Masewo village, July 4. Tempo/Erwan Hermawan . tempo : 177271022397.

HEAVY rain in early July in the Masewo village, Central Sulawesi, caused the Wintunga River running near the village to overflow. The water carried leaves, branches, and even tree trunks from the river’s upstream aera, causing the turbines of the village’s micro hydro power plant (PLTMH) to stop turning. The village turned dark.

At early dawn the next day, three 20-year-old men came to clean the turbines from the various trash. It to

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