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Nithin Coca, Tonggo Simangunsong

Exposed: The links between Indonesia’s deforestation and Xinjiang

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Pardamean Simanullang says deforestation has decimated the local incense trade [Tonggo Simangunsong/Al Jazeera]

Pargamanan-Bintang Maria, Indonesia – Pardamean Simanullang, a 52-year-old incense farmer in North Sumatra, Indonesia, demonstrated how the shape of the dried frankincense sap was elongated and thin.

“In the past, the incense sap from here was on average the size of a fist,” Simanullang, who lives in the Pargamanan-Bintang Maria hamlet in the Parlilitan district, told Al Jazeera. “When it was dry it could be used as a foothold to climb and get the incense sap from above.”

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