Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

KAMPAR, Indonesia — The information from Radio Komunitas Lintas Subayang 107.7 FM reaches the remote corners of the Sumatran forest from a small broadcasting house in a market. “Accessing telecoms and disseminating information used to be a challenge,” said Agustinus Wijayanto, the director of a tiger conservation program in Indonesia’s Riau province. But that began to change a decade ago after conservation officials, together with WWF and Yapeka…