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Indonesian man walking 700 km in reverse to save forests

Updated 06 August 2019
AFP
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Indonesian man walking 700 km in reverse to save forests

Updated 06 August 2019
AFP

An Indonesian man is walking 700 kilometres (435 miles) from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago's quickly shrinking forests – and he is doing it backwards.

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