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SAROLANGUN, Indonesia On a night in early July, Solikin was awake chasing elephants past sunrise. The animals had entered the community’s oil palm fields and raised hell, mashing hundreds of young palm stems to a pulp. “What are we farmers supposed to do?” Solikin told Mongabay Indonesia a week later as he surveyed the […]