SUMEDANG, Indonesia Udit Surdiat only became a boat driver after he lost the rights to his farmland. The 63-year-old used to farm a hectare of land in Sumedang district, in Indonesia’s West Java province, until the family had to make way for the country’s second-largest dam. “My father was asked to sign in 1984,” […]
PANTURA, Indonesia Not so long ago, Lestari Priyanto needed only sail for a week from his home port on the north coast of Java Island to land a boat full of fish. Now he charts a course almost 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) away to the Maluku Islands, where he spends a month at sea […]