SEKADAU, Indonesia — Children’s laughter skimmed over water the color of mud as mothers wrung laundry over banks where the Sekadau joins the Kapuas, the longest river in Indonesia. Local testimony ...

Suratmo, a fisherman living on the banks of the Citarum River, could only laugh softly when asked about his catch today. He replied that he could no longer be called a fisherman. For the last five ...

STON, the middle-aged owner of a brightly painted café on a raft, complains about the river on which his establishment floats. When he was young the water of the Kapuas was clear; in the dry season ...

Sekadau is the largest settlement in a district of the same name on Indonesia’s longest river, the Kapuas River in Borneo. Historically, Sekadau has recorded higher rates of acute illness that local ...