The jungle school – indonesia expat

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A People in Crisis. A Young Woman's Adventure. Today, the outside world has arrived at their doorstep. From illegal loggers chain-sawing the jungle to government-sponsored transmigrants working in palm oil plantations, the outsiders are encroaching upon the rainforest. While they have the skills needed to preserve their jungle, the Orang Rimba are ill prepared to deal with land contracts or sale of rainforest products.

What can be done to help them? Butet Manurung shares the journal she kept during her first year in the jungle.