ALI & DU

Hutan Sejuta Rawa, Rumah Kita Bersama

Title Translation: ALI & DU – The Forest of a Million Swamps, Our Shared Home

Author: Casper Aliandu
Publication Date: March 2020
ISBN: 9 786239 517809

Ali is a 5-year-old Papuan boy. Du is the word for sago in the Papuan language. One day, Ali is shocked when a sago tree begins speaking to him. From that moment on, he and Du become friends. Du teaches him that humans must take care of sago trees because as trees, sago sustains human life. If all the sago trees are cut down, people will die because there will be no food left. Nature is the source of life, especially in Mappi Regency.

This book teaches all of us—including children—that from an early age we must understand that forests and everything within them must be protected and responsibly managed, so that future generations in Mappi Regency and Papua as a whole will not lose the shared home they depend on.

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