Greetings from a sea village in Indonesia, where Indigenous fishing gets help from mangroves

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. After a six-hour drive on the island of Sulawesi, my colleague Adi Renaldi and I arrived at the entrance of a village in the middle of a secluded cove. From there, our water taxi — a motorized wooden longboat — took us down a narrow waterway, where we saw mangroves thriving in the murky saltwater. …