The Israel ties Indonesia’s Bogor Agricultural University once had

Inside a greenhouse in Bogor, an Indonesian student watched an Israeli engineer explain how to make water disappear into soil, drop by drop. No one in the room thought to ask where the technology, or the expert, had come from, or what it meant to learn irrigation from a company built on land taken from someone else. For years, that quiet blind spot ran through parts of IPB University, Indonesia’s top agricultural school. It was suddenly, deliberately closed in 2025. In May 2022, students at IPB’s vocational campus in Bogor gathered to learn about greenhouses, the glass or plastic-covered structures farmers use to grow crops in a controlled environment. Among the speakers was Dr. Orian Shalev, a farming expert flown […]