![]() Today, they have little land to farm and no forest in which to forage after the land was cleared to make way for an oil palm plantation run by an Indonesian company. Every day I must figure out how to do this.Ī decade and a half ago, lush forests with evergreen fruit-bearing rambutan trees surrounded the home of Leni, a 43-year-old Iban Dayak woman and mother of two, in Jagoi Babang district of West Kalimantan province-an area her Indigenous community has inhabited for centuries. How do I do that when both of us are not working. Since oil palm came there is more suffering. ![]() Before our lives were simple, not rich, but enough.
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