SUMENEP, Indonesia Fisherwomen on Indonesia’s Madura Island are at the forefront of a protest against a plan to convert a stretch of their coast into salt farming in their efforts to protect the ecosystem that has provided a key source of income for the community. A group of women in Sumenep district of East […]
SUMENEP, Indonesia Small-scale fishers in Indonesia’s Masalembu Islands have filed a petition to the government calling for the establishment of an exclusive fishing zone off-limits to larger trawlers that use a controversial type of net that scoops up everything in its path. The Masalembu archipelago is dotted in the Java Ssea between the islands […]
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