Sunirco, the Indonesian Bajau People Association leader, prepares to leave his home to teach at a school in a Bajo village on Peleng, one of the largest of the Banggai Islands, an archipelago that is part of the province of Central Sulawesi in Indonesia, Nov. 7, 2023. "I had to swim to go to school if I could not catch a boat ride," said Sunirco, speaking of his life spent mostly at sea as a child. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)