Ive been to Burma several times and up the north around Myitkyina where several large WWII battles took place.It seems many aircraft were lost into the jungle. I asked a local who is an aviation enthusiast (building his own helicopter... but that's another story) what happens if they find an aircraft. He said that they normal melt it down for use in making pots and pans .
If the locals had know about it I'm sure it would have been sold for scrap or used for something else . The level of poverty and closed society in Burma is to been seen to be believed.