In Indonesia, a fighter for the people of the forest

Rimba children playing outside their home at the Bukit Duabelas National Park in Jambi province. The Rimba, who number in the few thousand, are one of several Indonesian forest communities, a drop in this vast country’s 212 million population. AFP AFP – The sound of an insect can make Tumenggung Tarib weep. It happened once after he traded his customary loincloth for a shirt and trousers to fly the "big bird" from his Sumatran jungle home to the alien world of Jakarta.

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