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A farmer holds an opened cocoa pod at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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Indonesia's cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change
By VICTORIA MILKO AND DITA ALANGKARA - Associated Press
Sat,03/15/25-9:04PM , 65 Reads
TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed knobby branch hits the ground.

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile.
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Sumini, a leader of a female ranger group, uses a machete to clear the way along a stream during a forest patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The patrol group was started by Sumini, who witnessed the devastating effects of deforestation on her local village. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation
By VICTORIA MILKO AND DITA ALANGKARA - Associated Press
Mon,06/03/24-8:05PM , 31 Reads
DAMARAN BARU, Indonesia (AP) — In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia's Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the laughter of the seven forest rangers trekking below them.
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Bara Kilimandang stands at the door of his house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. In Indonesia's far-east island, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country's national electricity provider. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages
By VICTORIA MILKO AND DITA ALANGKARA - Associated Press
Sat,05/13/23-11:01PM , 68 Reads
LAINDEHA, Indonesia (AP) — As Tamar Ana Jawa wove a red sarong in the fading sunlight, her neighbor switched on a light bulb dangling from the sloping tin roof. It was just one bulb powered by a small solar panel, but in this remote village that means a lot.
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