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Photography, Ethnography, and Sociology of Southeast Asia

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  • Gunny sack and the precarious workers behind the circular economy

    Gunny sack and the precarious workers behind the circular economy

    Yu Djilah, a mother of three, could no longer find a job as a seasonal farmworker since the expansion of the male-dominated sugar cane…
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    Rahardhika Utama
    Apr 2, 2020
    The old man and the old trees

    The old man and the old trees

    Sutopo is a seventy-eight-year-old rubber farmer of Sumatra who owns a small plot of old rubber trees. He planted most of his trees forty…
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    Rahardhika Utama
    Apr 1, 2020
    Tobanese fishmongers entrapped in the net of big fishery companies

    Tobanese fishmongers entrapped in the net of big fishery companies

    Fishmongers in Lake Toba, Indonesia, the largest volcanic lake in the world, are living witnesses for the degrading water quality in the…
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    Rahardhika Utama
    Apr 1, 2020
    Saving the Inguls

    Saving the Inguls

    The “Ingul” tree (Toona sureni) has been disappearing from Samosir Island, Indonesia. This tree holds an essential role in sustaining the…
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    Rahardhika Utama
    Apr 1, 2020
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