KARAWANG/JAKARTA, Indonesia — At 55, Warno has spent the past quarter of a century making a living from a fish farm that he manages in Karawang district, in the Indonesian province of West Java. Here, in ponds spanning a combined 2 hectares (5 acres), he raises milkfish and shrimp, and grows seaweed. “Every year, I have to spend a considerable amount of money to start over after the harvest,” he tells Mongabay Indonesia. “There also has to be regular maintenance to keep the pond water in good condition.” Crucially, Warno doesn’t own the land his fish farm sits on; he rents it from PT Perhutani, a government-owned company. That makes him one of many small-scale fish farmers along the northern Java coast who say they fear losing the land under a new government plan to revitalize what it call

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