Belitung Island just got its first international flight in 5 years. Right now? $40/day for 245-million-year-old granite beaches, zero crowds, no hawkers. We break down the real costs, the monsoon trap that kills your trip, and whether this window closes fast. New episode up now.
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Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWr7TwLGVOA
Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island
At issue is the growth in illegal mining and forest clearing by the plantation industry on land that the Lanun consider to have long been theirs.
#LandTheft #PredatoryCapitalism #ClimateDestruction #governmentviolation #Indonesia #BelitungIsland
BELITUNG ISLAND, Indonesia — Nasidi paddled gently past a row of the eponymous rasau trees that line the riverbanks here in Tebet Rasau village, where a decade ago people would wade into the Lenggang River to catch silverfish. But life along the river here in the hills of Belitung Island, he said, is not as […]
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