It takes hundreds of tea leaves and some skilled footwork to make kejek tea. The drink has been used in a ritual that dates back at least a century in West Java, Indonesia. But the country is losing tea plantations fast as fewer people see tea-making as a viable career. We went to Cigedug village to see how kejek tea is still standing in a struggling tea industry.

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