HIYUNG, Indonesia — For the village cultivating Indonesia’s most pungent chili pepper, July is a time of prosperity — and potential ruin. That midsummer month is when hundreds of farmers in Hiyung, a village in the southeast of the island of Borneo, begin to harvest the special variety of cayenne pepper they grow here. Known … Continue reading Wildfires turn up the heat on farmers growing Indonesia’s ‘hottest’ pepper