Word: sumatra
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...woven materials. The CROCO line, for example, includes a daybed in handwoven crocodile rattan with a wooden frame and solid teak feet. Other pieces include armchairs and sofas made of black pulut and seats crafted from malacca canes?a type of liana originating in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra...
...Spills The breakup of the tanker Braer near Britain's Shetland Islands did a lot less damage than one might expect from 26 million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...
...just after dawn in the hills of South Sumatra, but Jema'ah is hard at work. Jema'ah, 39, normally feeds his family of four by tramping from village to village buying vegetables from farmers and then reselling them to dealers, a practice that nets him about $40 in a good month. Today, if he's lucky, he will earn twice that in a few hours. "Pangolin are usually asleep in their nests at this time of day," he says, squatting down in front of a rabbit-hole-sized opening in a low embankment. After piling dried leaves and twigs...
...Southeast Asia is headed for China, says Steve Galster, who heads WildAid's Bangkok office. Illegal traders have had to adapt to the changed marketplace. "I had to take a crash course in Mandarin," laughs Hendrawan, an affable young Indonesian who runs a sprawling wildlife processing facility in South Sumatra. "My family is Chinese but we don't speak it at home, so when business began to go through the roof a few years ago, I had to take lessons...
...Controversy over the existence of Pygmies in Indonesia's numberless islands is centuries-old. Writing in the 14th century, Marco Polo described how natives of Sumatra would try to sell the mummified bodies of Pygmies to visitors. But, wrote Polo, "'tis all a lie and cheat. Those ... little men ... are manufactured on the island. There is a kind of monkey on the island which is very small and has a face just like a man's. They take these and pluck out all the hairs except on the beard and chest and then they dry them and stuff them...