Monday, June 26, 2006

Tree Power!

This is from the World Bank's monthly Aceh Conflict Monitoring Update:

Three separate villages in Aceh are planning to protest bad roads by planting trees in the middle. In three separate incidents from difference corners of Aceh, villagers protested bad roads by planting trees, or by threatening to plant them, in the middle of the road. In on village, villagers planted more than 20 banana and tuber trees in a road that the community claims the government has not maintained in 15 years. On Pulau Weh, villagers have begun planting various types of trees in the middle of the road that leads from the city of Sabang to Kilometer Zero. Finally, in Aceh Barat Daya, villages threatened to plant a road with rice if the government did not immediately repair a road that they have promised to on numerous occasions.

Civil disobedience!

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