Indonesia Fake Nature Photo Essay

HOLD FOR STORY INDONESIA FAKE NATURE PHOTO ESSAY – In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 photo, shoppers walk past artificial trees at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. The metropolitan’s gleaming air conditioned malls have a particular fondness for fake forests, erecting plastic ferny extravaganzas where no life thrives or autumnal trees that don’t drop any leaves while environmental destruction taking place elsewhere in the nation as palm oil and pulp wood plantations consume ever more land. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)