Creditors Send Him Up a Tree
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — A villager in southern Sumatra has spent the last 19 months atop a coconut tree to escape his creditors, ignoring his wife’s pleas and threats of violence, the Sinar Harapan newspaper reported.
Tohiran, 42, climbed the 65-foot tree in January, 1984, and has defied the orders of local officials and the impassioned pleas of his distraught wife to end his self-exile, the newspaper said last week.
“I won’t come down until I get divine inspiration,” Tohiran was quoted as saying.
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