He sold his goats to buy tree seedlings and transformed barren hills into a forest: Meet Mbah Sadiman |
For years, villagers in a drought-prone region of Central Java believed Mbah Sadiman was wasting his life. While the hills around Wonogiri remained dry and damaged by deforestation, the elderly farmer quietly spent decades planting banyan trees across barren slopes. To continue buying seedlings, he even sold his goats and used much of his own…