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2) Prof. V. Monteil, who stayed two years in Indonesia as a cultural attaché, has gathered numerous facts in order to write a book devoted to "Indonesian Islam"; we are publishing here the text of a talk he gave in Djakarta in June, 1970, where he analyses the burning question of the common points and the tensions which bring together — and which separated — the diverse religions of Indonesia (Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism ).

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In the desert, the life of man is bound up with that of his flocks. Stock-raising is the only way of transforming poor vegetation into milk & meat, thus saving the nomad from starving or dying of thirst. The basic problem is still water, & with it, pasture-land. In the dry season the stock-raiser in the Sahara cannot take his stock more than 50 kilometres from a supply of water. His problem is to find accessible pasture-land. Accordingly Capot-Rey distinguishes 3 types of nomads in the Sahara: those who move outside the Sahara, those who spend the summer in the desert, & those who are 'semi-nomads.' This was the traditional setting when underground prospecting revealed the presence of mineral &oil deposits which have already been partially worked. Traditional nomadic society in the Sahara has a well-developed structural system, but in Mauretania the young Republic is already seeking to bring things up to date, & establish an indigenous admin'ive body which owes no allegiance to the soc orders & castes of the past. WAERSA.