 In a remote part of Central Java, Indonesia’s most populous island, there is a rather unusual form of environmentalism taking root.
Shadowed by the great Merapi volcano and surrounded by fertile fields of rice and sugarcane, a small school is graduating environmentalists whose commitment to the earth is not based on Western conservation texts but rather predicated in values derived from Islam.
The head of the school, Nasruddin Anshari, frequently uses the refrain “one earth, for all.”
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