Stop selling poverty to donors, NGOs told

Stop selling poverty to donors, NGOs told

JAMBI, Riau: The Anak Dalam Tribe Care Group (Kopsad) urged non-governmental organizations (NGOs) here on Monday to stop selling the poverty and illiteracy of Anak Dalam to foreign donor agencies.

Kopsad chairman Budhi Vrihaspathi Jauhari said that NGOs that have received funds from donor agencies have neglected Anak Dalam Tribe --also known as Kubu tribe.

"The forest which is the tribe's sanctuary has been converted into oil palm plantations. Kubu people now only have soil as their bed and sky as their roof," he said.

Budhi urged the provincial officials and political elite to oblige plantation owners to introduce modern life to Kubu people. --Antara