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Environment: Indonesia’s green madrassas |
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Java, Indonesia - 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.
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"Children from the village of Bantul are learning about the importance of preserving their ecosystem as a mark of worshipping God." |
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