{"id":24233,"date":"2018-12-04T05:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24233"},"modified":"2018-12-04T05:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:23:34","slug":"the-indonesians-turning-dirty-waterways-into-clean-fish-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24233","title":{"rendered":"The Indonesians turning dirty waterways into clean fish farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Irfah Satiri slightly bends down to drag a plastic bag out of the mud at the bottom of a waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>&#8220;Maybe, it&#8217;s been here for years,&#8221; he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The paddy fields that used to surround Satiri&#8217;s village in Bogor, south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, have mostly been built over by housing. Only these irrigation channels remain.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the waterways became a dumping ground for waste. Despite the foul smells, most of the villagers did not care, Satiri says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was really stressed about the garbage in the river, and how I would solve this problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Satiri and his friends came up with an idea. They started with a 30-metre stretch of waterway. They cleaned it out and populated it with fish. When the other villagers saw that it could be a source of food and income, they joined in.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, the fish farm is more than 300 metres in length, while neighbouring villages are thinking of doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera went to the village to find out more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irfah Satiri slightly bends down to drag a plastic bag out of the mud at the bottom of a waterway. &#8220;Maybe, it&#8217;s been here for years,&#8221; he says. The paddy fields that used to surround Satiri&#8217;s village in Bogor, south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, have mostly been built over by housing. Only these irrigation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}