Driving on Monkey Road
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
TEMPO recently journeyed over the 16-kilometer Blangkejeren-Dusun Gajah section of Ladia Galaska to look at the impact of the controversial road project on the environment and the local population.
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THE old jeep was leaving Blangkejeren, a small town on Lembah Leuser, when the ground was still wet with morning dew. Aswan, the driver and owner of the Toyota, deftly negotiated the long, winding road. The car he bought in Medan three years ago roared on into Dusun Gajah through the Simpang Badak intersection on a part of the Ladia Galaska road that rises steeply up skirting the ridges of the Leuser mountain.
Now and then the jeep crossed paths w
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