Jansz Clan

Mariette: These pictures are all about the establishment of the first rubber estate in Aceh, Kebun Lama, Langsta, Sumatra.

After Willem Marius van der Veer got thousands of hectares of tropical rainforest cleared, trees got planted, the factory for processing the rubber was built and the buildings where the rubber sheets were hung out or smoked. There are many forms of rubber, crèmes bering one of them. After planting the seedlings it takes 7 years for the tree to mature. Then the latex can be tapped. After 25 to 30 years the trees are removed. and replaced by new seedings. This process is done by rotation. Later on my grandfather introduced the Pistacia Terebinthus. My grandparents had a holiday home in Mimizan in France. There my grandfather saw the Terebinth tree, which produces resin. He saw that this tree might also do very well in Aceh and he was right. It was enormously successful. The resin is used to produce terpentine.

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Rubber Trees

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