Mohamad Rayan. Reporting.Malinau.
Simmering under the surface in Malinau is fragile ethnicities relationship. This is latest update report from the conservation district. It would not be a long report.Well, it started as usual when Marcus and i came to ask the question on any conflicts with the neighbouring villages, the Setarap leader confessed that they have problems with Setulang village and Punan Setarap.
Couple days later Setulang leaders informed me that they are having negotiation meeting on disputed area for farming with Setarap residents. The disputed area issue is not resolved yet. The area is disputed due to the fact there will be a palm oil plantation planning to open near the disputed area. This will be reported in the next report in Konservasiindonesia (KI).
Actually the report by Cifor on their study of village boundary couple years ago before they ceased program in Malinau, there always be potential conflicts on the ground. And at the core of the conflict normally there is issue of economic interest such when mining or logging company wanted to open the operation in an area.In this desk report, i would just paste the translation i did from a newspaper article in February 2007 below and previous article in KI.
Claiming village traditional forest, two ethnic Dayak closed to clashingMohamad Rayan. Translator.Rakyat Merdeka. February 2007
Due to the boundary claimed as traditional land, two villages were in the brink of clashing that is Respen Tubu village and Sentaban, East Kalimantan.Even, the village clash did not happened, the punching of one of the village resident in the dispute did occur at the traditional leaders meeting of the two villagers on Friday 9 February 2007.Because of the punching, the victim brought to clinic Mentarang due to bleeding nose. Even though there was agreement for both villagers to keep emotion down during the meeting. It was also suggested by both village leaders to keep calm.Traditional leader of Dayak Merau, Atong Aran with one resident said the problem aroused out of unhappiness of their group due to the boundary of the forest claimed by them. “This disputed boundary claimed as traditional forest is in the area of PT BKS.
They (Seturan 4 dayak ethnicities) thought the decision to allow the logging to operate in the traditional forest is only one ethnicities (Punan) without telling the other ethnicities.”“This decision is only by one ethnicity only, but actually there are (in Seturan) ethnicities dayak of Abay, Merap, Merau, Bilau and Punan, they are all related.”Feeling that the decision on allowing the company is done by one ethnicity, the other ethnicities are not approving. According to Atong Aran, they are requesting that the other 4 ethnicities be involved with in every decision on traditional people rights.They also acknowledged that before the logging company entered to location, village residents never received the explanation on the planning of the company going to the community traditional forest.“At the beginning there was no notification to us. May be the company only informed only the undeveloped ethnic Punan” explained Atong Aran.That is why from 4 ethnicities lived in Sentaban village, expecting this problem be resolved in family spirit.If it cannot be solved in this meeting now, they suggest the company which is operating now be terminated temporarily until there is agreement.“We are not expecting the community be suffering and became victims. If the problem is between community and the government, or the community and the company, the conflict is still resolvable. But if the conflict happened between communities, it could end up in chasing each other and caused the riot like yesterday, he said”Budiansyah, the representative of PT BKS conceded that it has informed the community including government before operating.
However, after 3 months in operation, there is new problem from a group of claiming the area as their area.He was also present as a good listener on this conflict of area ownership by several groups who are claiming and counter-claiming with the size of the area is 47.000 ha. Budiansyah is also looking for the truth.“We have done a socialisation to one of the village at the district government, however other community complained on this problem.The complainers had also reported the case to sub district Police for requesting to organize a meeting and in that meeting i will be present for finding which party is the right one,” said Budiansyah when questioned in the front of Mentarang sub district police station Friday 9 January 2007.Meanwhile the acting sub district head, Marson R Langub after leading a meeting from the two disputing group confessed still confused. Ida/jpnnSumber: http://www.rakyatmerdeka.co.id/indexframe.php?url=nusantara/index.php?q=news&id=4460Translated by Rayan 23 June 2009.
Kamis, 02 Juli 2009
Selasa, 30 Juni 2009
Save Tropical Forest
Mohamad Rayan. Clipping
A New Idea to Save Tropical Forests Takes FlightJohn O. Niles, special to mongabay.com June 29, 2009This is the first in a series of tropical forest policy commentaries John-O Niles will be writing for Mongabay.com leading up to the December U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen.
John-O is the Director of the Tropical Forest Group.
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In late 1991, I had just finished my undergraduate degree in forest economics at the University of Vermont. The Rio Earth Summit was approaching and everyone seemed to be wearing “Save the Rainforest” T-shirts. So, being 22 years old and green in more ways than one, I decided to hitchhike across Africa and see the rainforest myself. After a summer working in an Alaska salmon cannery to save some money and thumbing my way back across America in station wagons and 18 wheelers, I grabbed a $199 one-way flight to Spain. I crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on a ferry and proceeded to get solidly conned my first night in Morocco by one of Tangiers’ world-famous touts. I then got sick in the Sahara and stranded during a coup in Algeria. I stayed with a one-eyed farmer (Jo-Man) in Niger, and floated down the Niger River into northwestern Nigeria on a pirogue. I wandered around the notoriously difficult nation for a few weeks and then headed southeast to make my way into Cameroon. In Cameroon, I knew, I could see some real rainforests. While phoning home from Calabar, Nigeria, to my distraught mother (I hadn’t contacted her in months and she had called the State Department to report me missing), I ran into Liza Gadsby. Liza and her partner, Peter Jenkins, run Pandrillus, an excellent primate and forest non-profit working in southeast Nigeria and southwest Cameroon. They invited me to stay at their “ranch” to help care for orphaned chimpanzees and drill monkeys. After several months on my own in Africa and having lost 20 pounds, looking after cute young chimpanzees and eating real food (Liza is a great cook) was a refreshing and welcome opportunity.
John-O in the Afi Mountains in 1992. Peter and Liza fed me enough hearty dinners to restore some weight. In exchange I diapered sick and remarkably manipulative young chimpanzees and hand-fed palm-size infant drills that looked like miniature aliens. All the primates cared for by Pandrillus, orphans of the bushmeat trade, get medical care and live with same-species friends in enormous enclosures. After a few weeks of rest and volunteering, I decided to leave my simian friends and continue my jaunt through Africa. Peter and Liza suggested that if I wanted to see a rainforest, I should go to the Afi Mountains, a few hours’ drive north. The Afi Mountains marked a major frontier of deforestation. To the west there were few forests left; most had been cut to feed Nigeria’s growing rural population. To the east, toward Cameroon, there were still plenty of forests, though they too were being exploited fast. Nigeria’s Afi Mountains had key outposts of chimpanzee, gorilla, and elusive drill monkey populations. I caught a lift to the village of Buanchor , a relatively remote village of the Boki tribe. Buanchor, nestled under the Afi mountains, was a colorful and rowdy town, with dozens of chiefs, all whom wore red hats.
The Jeep ride into the Afi Mountains in 1992. Photo by John O. Niles. The next morning, having hired guides and met some of Buanchor’s chiefs, I journeyed into my first rainforest. I hadn’t taken more than a few steps into the forest when I stopped, threw off my pack, and then just plain threw up. Months of dysentery and amoebas, some palm wine the night before and a breakfast of fried yams and kola nuts took their toll. The guides were clearly curious about this hairy white guy losing his guts within minutes of what was to be a several-day excursion. Despite my flawed first yards in a rainforest, after a few days of trekking around the majestic and primitive mountains, I was hooked. The rainforest was disorienting, amazing, and completely wild and strange to this Vermonter. The sense of adventure sneaking through a jungle and stalking distant ancestors is beyond description. During the day the jungle’s air glowed green. At night unseen animals joined together in a cacophony of wild sounds that rose and fell in a disorienting and muddled unison. There was a religious sense of awe from the intertwined trees that towered above me. We spent a few days scrambling up and down mountains, calling to attract duikers (small African antelope), reading animal clues, and eating sardines and hard bread in caves. It was during a lunch break, when I heard my first stories about Udoga, a famous hunter who wore only a loin cloth and caught everything from bush rats to gorillas. Since that fateful trip to the Afi Mountains, I have spent most my life trying to do something positive for tropical forests. This has included several return trips to Nigeria (where I lived with a growing ranch of chimpanzees and worked beside the former hunter Udoga), as well as writing academic articles, helping diplomats, leading an effort to create global forestry projects standards, and starting a non-profit to support forestry projects in post-conflict zones. And this year, for the first time in decades, I have a sense of hope. The world seems to finally recognize the severe human and environmental costs of tropical deforestation. Ambitious plans are being assembled to provide massive new support for tropical countries to rein in the devastation.
Tropical Deforestation
The village of Buanchor, Nigeria, underneath the Afi Mountains. Photo by John O. Niles. Every year, tens of millions of acres of tropical forests are destroyed. This is the most destabilizing human land-use phenomenon on Earth. Tropical forests store more aboveground carbon than any other biome. They harbor more species than all other ecosystems combined. Tropical forests modulate global water, air, and nutrient cycles. They influence planetary energy flows and global weather patterns. Tropical forests provide livelihoods for many of the world’s poorest, most marginalized people. Drugs for cancer, malaria, glaucoma, and leukemia are derived from rainforest compounds. Despite all these immense values, tropical forests are vanishing faster than any other natural system. No other threat to human welfare has been so clearly documented and simultaneously left unchecked. Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit (when more than 100 heads of State gathered to pledge a green future) 500 million acres of tropical forests have been cut or burned. For decades, tropical deforestation has been the No. 1 cause of species extinctions and the No. 2 cause of human greenhouse gas emissions, after the burning of fossil fuels. For decades, a few conservation heroes tried their best to plug holes in the dikes, but by and large the most diverse forests on Earth were in serious decline. In short, until very recently there has been no concerted effort to tackle what is arguably the most acute threat to Earth’s ecological integrity. Developing countries had other priorities. Conservation can rarely compete financially against putting in a soy bean crop or palm oil plantation, or selling trees, or growing coffee, or raising cattle. Wealthy countries were spending substantially more on toothpaste than on trying to save magnificent tropical forest ecosystems.
A New Plan
Some of the Boki people in Buanchor, Nigeria. Photo by John O. Niles.
And then in 2005, a small group of countries changed everything. Papua New Guinea teamed up with Costa Rica and a handful of other countries to make a formal plea to the United Nations. Their request was simple—if developing countries can credibly reduce rates of deforestation and the associated CO2 emissions, the countries should get paid. This band of countries, organized as the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, was even more specific. They asserted that tropical nations should get lucrative carbon credits for each ton of CO2 that otherwise would have been emitted because of deforestation. The global market for carbon credits was worth tens of billions of dollars, so tying rainforest protection to carbon finance would raise vast new sums to conserve tropical forests. Since almost 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are from tropical land-use change, and with growing concern about global warming, other countries began to listen. Since 2005, the concept of paying countries to conserve their forests and reduce global warming has been dubbed by diplomats as reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries, or REDD. REDD is a bold and evolving plan to radically slow the pace of CO2 emissions by offering hefty incentives for developing countries to stem deforestation. Instead of a couple hundred million dollars per year in conservation charity, billions of dollars in carbon credits could be spent to curtail logging, stop agriculture expansion, or in other ways prevent forests from getting knocked down or set on fire.
Afi Mountain forests. Photos by Pandrillus.
REDD is also an incredibly risky gamble. The whole plan relies on resolving gaping problems in forest tenure and governance, technological capacities, and regulatory oversight. In many countries it is not obvious who has rights over a forest. And nowhere in the world are there clear answers to the trickier question of who has rights to the carbon stored in the trees. Another key challenge is the need for a new, uniform way of “interlocking” satellite data with tree measurements taken from forests around the world. We can tell reasonably well from space where and when forests are cleared. Not so well understood is how much carbon is stored in a particular forest and how much is oxidized upon deforestation. In addition to issues of rights and technologies, new global institutions are needed to make this REDD plan work. And even with all these pieces in place, REDD assumes that appropriate price signals for saving trees will make a real difference on the ground in forest communities. This is a huge leap of faith, given that many developing countries currently deforesting have only loose control over vast areas of their land. There are also huge political differences about the ideal way to design a new REDD system of forest conservation payments. What is amazing is that, despite these challenges, some of the brightest conservation minds on the planet, and most governments, now believe that this so-called REDD plan is the best shot for saving millions of acres of tropical forests. REDD has inspired a whole new cadre of optimistic, creative, and determined people who are self-organizing to stop tropical deforestation. Non-profits, forest communities, governors, presidents, consultants, and scientists are working to usher in this ground-breaking plan for saving rainforests. Others are equally determined to prevent a REDD fiasco, citing the problems already noted with particular concerns about REDD’s impact on indigenous peoples and on the global price of emitting carbon dioxide.
Healthy forest and recently cleared forest adjacent to Tanjung Puting National Park in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Photos Rhett Butler
But for now, the overwhelming momentum points to several new policy mechanisms that would pay developing countries that can demonstrate credible drops in deforestation rates and carbon emissions. The idea of using carbon finance to pay for reductions in deforestation has been introduced in United States legislation (in a bill that passed the House of Representatives as well as in earlier Senate bills) and in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In other words, REDD proposals are moving ahead in the two mega-forums that matter when it comes to climate change policy. What is left to decide now are the details. As in all things, the details will make a huge difference as to whether REDD will succeed or fail. My future Mongabay.com commentaries will investigate the details, disagreements, and developments of emerging REDD policy proposals. I’ll also explore how the concept of REDD got started in the “voluntary carbon” markets and how proposed policies could dramatically hurt or help these early efforts to make saving tropical forests more profitable than tearing them down. With the United States and the United Nations scrambling to complete new agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions, this year will be monumental for climate change and tropical forests, one way or another. So far, the signs are dramatically positive but there are many obstacles yet to overcome.
John-O Niles is the Director of the Tropical Forest Group, a non-profit that "catalyzes policy, science and advocacy to conserve and restore the planet’s remaining tropical forests."This is the first in a series of tropical forest policy commentaries John-O Niles will be writing for Mongabay.com leading up to the December U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen.
A New Idea to Save Tropical Forests Takes FlightJohn O. Niles, special to mongabay.com June 29, 2009This is the first in a series of tropical forest policy commentaries John-O Niles will be writing for Mongabay.com leading up to the December U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen.
John-O is the Director of the Tropical Forest Group.
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In late 1991, I had just finished my undergraduate degree in forest economics at the University of Vermont. The Rio Earth Summit was approaching and everyone seemed to be wearing “Save the Rainforest” T-shirts. So, being 22 years old and green in more ways than one, I decided to hitchhike across Africa and see the rainforest myself. After a summer working in an Alaska salmon cannery to save some money and thumbing my way back across America in station wagons and 18 wheelers, I grabbed a $199 one-way flight to Spain. I crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on a ferry and proceeded to get solidly conned my first night in Morocco by one of Tangiers’ world-famous touts. I then got sick in the Sahara and stranded during a coup in Algeria. I stayed with a one-eyed farmer (Jo-Man) in Niger, and floated down the Niger River into northwestern Nigeria on a pirogue. I wandered around the notoriously difficult nation for a few weeks and then headed southeast to make my way into Cameroon. In Cameroon, I knew, I could see some real rainforests. While phoning home from Calabar, Nigeria, to my distraught mother (I hadn’t contacted her in months and she had called the State Department to report me missing), I ran into Liza Gadsby. Liza and her partner, Peter Jenkins, run Pandrillus, an excellent primate and forest non-profit working in southeast Nigeria and southwest Cameroon. They invited me to stay at their “ranch” to help care for orphaned chimpanzees and drill monkeys. After several months on my own in Africa and having lost 20 pounds, looking after cute young chimpanzees and eating real food (Liza is a great cook) was a refreshing and welcome opportunity.
John-O in the Afi Mountains in 1992. Peter and Liza fed me enough hearty dinners to restore some weight. In exchange I diapered sick and remarkably manipulative young chimpanzees and hand-fed palm-size infant drills that looked like miniature aliens. All the primates cared for by Pandrillus, orphans of the bushmeat trade, get medical care and live with same-species friends in enormous enclosures. After a few weeks of rest and volunteering, I decided to leave my simian friends and continue my jaunt through Africa. Peter and Liza suggested that if I wanted to see a rainforest, I should go to the Afi Mountains, a few hours’ drive north. The Afi Mountains marked a major frontier of deforestation. To the west there were few forests left; most had been cut to feed Nigeria’s growing rural population. To the east, toward Cameroon, there were still plenty of forests, though they too were being exploited fast. Nigeria’s Afi Mountains had key outposts of chimpanzee, gorilla, and elusive drill monkey populations. I caught a lift to the village of Buanchor , a relatively remote village of the Boki tribe. Buanchor, nestled under the Afi mountains, was a colorful and rowdy town, with dozens of chiefs, all whom wore red hats.
The Jeep ride into the Afi Mountains in 1992. Photo by John O. Niles. The next morning, having hired guides and met some of Buanchor’s chiefs, I journeyed into my first rainforest. I hadn’t taken more than a few steps into the forest when I stopped, threw off my pack, and then just plain threw up. Months of dysentery and amoebas, some palm wine the night before and a breakfast of fried yams and kola nuts took their toll. The guides were clearly curious about this hairy white guy losing his guts within minutes of what was to be a several-day excursion. Despite my flawed first yards in a rainforest, after a few days of trekking around the majestic and primitive mountains, I was hooked. The rainforest was disorienting, amazing, and completely wild and strange to this Vermonter. The sense of adventure sneaking through a jungle and stalking distant ancestors is beyond description. During the day the jungle’s air glowed green. At night unseen animals joined together in a cacophony of wild sounds that rose and fell in a disorienting and muddled unison. There was a religious sense of awe from the intertwined trees that towered above me. We spent a few days scrambling up and down mountains, calling to attract duikers (small African antelope), reading animal clues, and eating sardines and hard bread in caves. It was during a lunch break, when I heard my first stories about Udoga, a famous hunter who wore only a loin cloth and caught everything from bush rats to gorillas. Since that fateful trip to the Afi Mountains, I have spent most my life trying to do something positive for tropical forests. This has included several return trips to Nigeria (where I lived with a growing ranch of chimpanzees and worked beside the former hunter Udoga), as well as writing academic articles, helping diplomats, leading an effort to create global forestry projects standards, and starting a non-profit to support forestry projects in post-conflict zones. And this year, for the first time in decades, I have a sense of hope. The world seems to finally recognize the severe human and environmental costs of tropical deforestation. Ambitious plans are being assembled to provide massive new support for tropical countries to rein in the devastation.
Tropical Deforestation
The village of Buanchor, Nigeria, underneath the Afi Mountains. Photo by John O. Niles. Every year, tens of millions of acres of tropical forests are destroyed. This is the most destabilizing human land-use phenomenon on Earth. Tropical forests store more aboveground carbon than any other biome. They harbor more species than all other ecosystems combined. Tropical forests modulate global water, air, and nutrient cycles. They influence planetary energy flows and global weather patterns. Tropical forests provide livelihoods for many of the world’s poorest, most marginalized people. Drugs for cancer, malaria, glaucoma, and leukemia are derived from rainforest compounds. Despite all these immense values, tropical forests are vanishing faster than any other natural system. No other threat to human welfare has been so clearly documented and simultaneously left unchecked. Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit (when more than 100 heads of State gathered to pledge a green future) 500 million acres of tropical forests have been cut or burned. For decades, tropical deforestation has been the No. 1 cause of species extinctions and the No. 2 cause of human greenhouse gas emissions, after the burning of fossil fuels. For decades, a few conservation heroes tried their best to plug holes in the dikes, but by and large the most diverse forests on Earth were in serious decline. In short, until very recently there has been no concerted effort to tackle what is arguably the most acute threat to Earth’s ecological integrity. Developing countries had other priorities. Conservation can rarely compete financially against putting in a soy bean crop or palm oil plantation, or selling trees, or growing coffee, or raising cattle. Wealthy countries were spending substantially more on toothpaste than on trying to save magnificent tropical forest ecosystems.
A New Plan
Some of the Boki people in Buanchor, Nigeria. Photo by John O. Niles.
And then in 2005, a small group of countries changed everything. Papua New Guinea teamed up with Costa Rica and a handful of other countries to make a formal plea to the United Nations. Their request was simple—if developing countries can credibly reduce rates of deforestation and the associated CO2 emissions, the countries should get paid. This band of countries, organized as the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, was even more specific. They asserted that tropical nations should get lucrative carbon credits for each ton of CO2 that otherwise would have been emitted because of deforestation. The global market for carbon credits was worth tens of billions of dollars, so tying rainforest protection to carbon finance would raise vast new sums to conserve tropical forests. Since almost 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are from tropical land-use change, and with growing concern about global warming, other countries began to listen. Since 2005, the concept of paying countries to conserve their forests and reduce global warming has been dubbed by diplomats as reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries, or REDD. REDD is a bold and evolving plan to radically slow the pace of CO2 emissions by offering hefty incentives for developing countries to stem deforestation. Instead of a couple hundred million dollars per year in conservation charity, billions of dollars in carbon credits could be spent to curtail logging, stop agriculture expansion, or in other ways prevent forests from getting knocked down or set on fire.
Afi Mountain forests. Photos by Pandrillus.
REDD is also an incredibly risky gamble. The whole plan relies on resolving gaping problems in forest tenure and governance, technological capacities, and regulatory oversight. In many countries it is not obvious who has rights over a forest. And nowhere in the world are there clear answers to the trickier question of who has rights to the carbon stored in the trees. Another key challenge is the need for a new, uniform way of “interlocking” satellite data with tree measurements taken from forests around the world. We can tell reasonably well from space where and when forests are cleared. Not so well understood is how much carbon is stored in a particular forest and how much is oxidized upon deforestation. In addition to issues of rights and technologies, new global institutions are needed to make this REDD plan work. And even with all these pieces in place, REDD assumes that appropriate price signals for saving trees will make a real difference on the ground in forest communities. This is a huge leap of faith, given that many developing countries currently deforesting have only loose control over vast areas of their land. There are also huge political differences about the ideal way to design a new REDD system of forest conservation payments. What is amazing is that, despite these challenges, some of the brightest conservation minds on the planet, and most governments, now believe that this so-called REDD plan is the best shot for saving millions of acres of tropical forests. REDD has inspired a whole new cadre of optimistic, creative, and determined people who are self-organizing to stop tropical deforestation. Non-profits, forest communities, governors, presidents, consultants, and scientists are working to usher in this ground-breaking plan for saving rainforests. Others are equally determined to prevent a REDD fiasco, citing the problems already noted with particular concerns about REDD’s impact on indigenous peoples and on the global price of emitting carbon dioxide.
Healthy forest and recently cleared forest adjacent to Tanjung Puting National Park in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Photos Rhett Butler
But for now, the overwhelming momentum points to several new policy mechanisms that would pay developing countries that can demonstrate credible drops in deforestation rates and carbon emissions. The idea of using carbon finance to pay for reductions in deforestation has been introduced in United States legislation (in a bill that passed the House of Representatives as well as in earlier Senate bills) and in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In other words, REDD proposals are moving ahead in the two mega-forums that matter when it comes to climate change policy. What is left to decide now are the details. As in all things, the details will make a huge difference as to whether REDD will succeed or fail. My future Mongabay.com commentaries will investigate the details, disagreements, and developments of emerging REDD policy proposals. I’ll also explore how the concept of REDD got started in the “voluntary carbon” markets and how proposed policies could dramatically hurt or help these early efforts to make saving tropical forests more profitable than tearing them down. With the United States and the United Nations scrambling to complete new agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions, this year will be monumental for climate change and tropical forests, one way or another. So far, the signs are dramatically positive but there are many obstacles yet to overcome.
John-O Niles is the Director of the Tropical Forest Group, a non-profit that "catalyzes policy, science and advocacy to conserve and restore the planet’s remaining tropical forests."This is the first in a series of tropical forest policy commentaries John-O Niles will be writing for Mongabay.com leading up to the December U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen.
Senin, 29 Juni 2009
Ekowisata Malinau
Pesona Wisata dan Budaya Malinau
Mohamad Rayan. Klipping
Rosdianah Dewi
Air Panas Semolon, salah satu kekayaan alam yang belum tereksplorasi denga baik. Air panas tersebut berlokasi di Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur
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Minggu, 28 Juni 2009 11:44 WIB
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Selama ini dunia intenasional hanya mengenal Bali sebagai salah satu tujuan utama pariwisata mereka. Padahal Indonesia tidak hanya Bali, masih banyak tempat-tempat lain yang memilki keindahan alam yang tak kalah cantiknya dengan Bali.
Salah satu derah yang juga tak kalah eksotisnya adalah, Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur. Malinau merupakan kabupaten terbesar di Kalimantan Timur dan berbatasan langsung dengan Serawak, Malaysia.
Untuk memperkenalkan keindahan alam yang ada di Malinau kepada masyarakat luas, Pemerintah daerah kabupaten Malinau, Minggu ( 28/6 )menggelar pesona wisata dan kebudayaan Kabupaten Malinau, di Anjungan Kalimantan Timur, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.
M. Peter Yadi, PLT Kabag Humas dan Protokol Pemda Kabupaten Malinau, menerangkan, acara tersebut juga sejalan dengan program pemda Kalimantan Timur yang belum lama ini mencanangkan Visit East Borneo.
"Dalam acara ini, akan ditampilkan tari-tarian khas Malinau yang kesemua penarinya didatangkan langsung dari Malinau. Selain itu, ada juga stan yang menjual produk-produk khas Malinau, seperti tas rajutan, keripik buah, sampai madu asli Malinau," terang Peter, saat di temui di Ajungan Kalimantan Timur, TMII, Jakarta, Minggu ( 28/6 ). Pada pagelaran tersebut, hadir juga Bupati Malinau, Martin Bila , dan beberapa Duta Besar dari negara sahabat.
Acara tersebut juga dimaksudkan untuk memperkenalkan berbagai pariwisata alam yang dimiliki oleh kabupaten Malinau, seperti arus liar yang ada di sungai sungai tugu dan sungai Bahaowulu, air terjun Martin Bila, air panas Semolon. "Masyarakat dapat melihat rumah adat asli dari masyarakat Malinau atau biasa di sebut Lamin Adat. Ada juga kuburan batu yang sudah ada beratus-ratus tahun lalu," ujarnya.
Selain itu, kata Peter, karena Malinau satu-satu kabupaten yang memproklamirkan diri sebagai kapubaten konservasi, dengan demikian wisatawan dapat menikmati berbagai kekayaan flora dan fauna yang tidak dimiliki daerah lain. "Ada juga tempat penelitian laut Birai, tempat penelitian flora dan fauan Kain mentarang," terangnya.
Peter menerangkan untuk saat ini, jumlah wisatawan yang datang masih sangat sedikit. "Kebanyakan adalah peneliti asing, sekitar 20 orang pertahun. Sedangkan untuk wisatan domestik lebih sedikit lagi," ujarnya.
Hal tersebut, lanjutnya, disebabkan membutuhkan waktu yang lama untuk sampai di Malinau, terlebih jika melalui jalur darat. "Kalau dari bandara Internasional di Balik Papan, kita harus transit dulu di Tarakan baru melanjutkan dengan pesawat kecil. Kalau melalui jalur darat, dari ibu kota propinsi butuh waktu 24 jam. Dan itu juga harus menggunakan jalur off road," lontar dia.
Dengan digelarnya acara ini, Peter mewakili Pemda Kabupaten Malinau berharap, semakin banyak pengunjung yang datang ke Malinau, ia juga menghimbau agar pemerintah pusat lebih memperhatikan kekayaan yang ada di Malinau. "Malinau mempunyai nilai ekonomis yang tinggi, jika dieksplorasi lagi akan banyak membawa keuntungan bagi banyak pihak," tandasnya.
Mohamad Rayan. Klipping
Rosdianah Dewi
Air Panas Semolon, salah satu kekayaan alam yang belum tereksplorasi denga baik. Air panas tersebut berlokasi di Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur
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Minggu, 28 Juni 2009 11:44 WIB
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Selama ini dunia intenasional hanya mengenal Bali sebagai salah satu tujuan utama pariwisata mereka. Padahal Indonesia tidak hanya Bali, masih banyak tempat-tempat lain yang memilki keindahan alam yang tak kalah cantiknya dengan Bali.
Salah satu derah yang juga tak kalah eksotisnya adalah, Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur. Malinau merupakan kabupaten terbesar di Kalimantan Timur dan berbatasan langsung dengan Serawak, Malaysia.
Untuk memperkenalkan keindahan alam yang ada di Malinau kepada masyarakat luas, Pemerintah daerah kabupaten Malinau, Minggu ( 28/6 )menggelar pesona wisata dan kebudayaan Kabupaten Malinau, di Anjungan Kalimantan Timur, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.
M. Peter Yadi, PLT Kabag Humas dan Protokol Pemda Kabupaten Malinau, menerangkan, acara tersebut juga sejalan dengan program pemda Kalimantan Timur yang belum lama ini mencanangkan Visit East Borneo.
"Dalam acara ini, akan ditampilkan tari-tarian khas Malinau yang kesemua penarinya didatangkan langsung dari Malinau. Selain itu, ada juga stan yang menjual produk-produk khas Malinau, seperti tas rajutan, keripik buah, sampai madu asli Malinau," terang Peter, saat di temui di Ajungan Kalimantan Timur, TMII, Jakarta, Minggu ( 28/6 ). Pada pagelaran tersebut, hadir juga Bupati Malinau, Martin Bila , dan beberapa Duta Besar dari negara sahabat.
Acara tersebut juga dimaksudkan untuk memperkenalkan berbagai pariwisata alam yang dimiliki oleh kabupaten Malinau, seperti arus liar yang ada di sungai sungai tugu dan sungai Bahaowulu, air terjun Martin Bila, air panas Semolon. "Masyarakat dapat melihat rumah adat asli dari masyarakat Malinau atau biasa di sebut Lamin Adat. Ada juga kuburan batu yang sudah ada beratus-ratus tahun lalu," ujarnya.
Selain itu, kata Peter, karena Malinau satu-satu kabupaten yang memproklamirkan diri sebagai kapubaten konservasi, dengan demikian wisatawan dapat menikmati berbagai kekayaan flora dan fauna yang tidak dimiliki daerah lain. "Ada juga tempat penelitian laut Birai, tempat penelitian flora dan fauan Kain mentarang," terangnya.
Peter menerangkan untuk saat ini, jumlah wisatawan yang datang masih sangat sedikit. "Kebanyakan adalah peneliti asing, sekitar 20 orang pertahun. Sedangkan untuk wisatan domestik lebih sedikit lagi," ujarnya.
Hal tersebut, lanjutnya, disebabkan membutuhkan waktu yang lama untuk sampai di Malinau, terlebih jika melalui jalur darat. "Kalau dari bandara Internasional di Balik Papan, kita harus transit dulu di Tarakan baru melanjutkan dengan pesawat kecil. Kalau melalui jalur darat, dari ibu kota propinsi butuh waktu 24 jam. Dan itu juga harus menggunakan jalur off road," lontar dia.
Dengan digelarnya acara ini, Peter mewakili Pemda Kabupaten Malinau berharap, semakin banyak pengunjung yang datang ke Malinau, ia juga menghimbau agar pemerintah pusat lebih memperhatikan kekayaan yang ada di Malinau. "Malinau mempunyai nilai ekonomis yang tinggi, jika dieksplorasi lagi akan banyak membawa keuntungan bagi banyak pihak," tandasnya.
Selasa, 23 Juni 2009
Claiming village traditional forest, two ethnic Dayak closed to clashing
Mohamad Rayan. Translator.
Rakyat Merdeka. February 2007
Due to the boundary claimed as traditional land, two villages were in the brink of clashing that is Respen Tubu village and Sentaban, East Kalimantan.
Even, the village clash did not happened, the punching of one of the village resident in the dispute did occur at the traditional leaders meeting of the two villagers on Friday 9 February 2007.
Because of the punching, the victim brought to clinic Mentarang due to bleeding nose. Even though there was agreement for both villagers to keep emotion down during the meeting. It was also suggested by both village leaders to keep calm.
Traditional leader of Dayak Merau, Atong Aran with one resident said the problem aroused out of unhappiness of their group due to the boundary of the forest claimed by them. “This disputed boundary claimed as traditional forest is in the area of PT Batu Karang Sakti. They (Seturan 4 dayak ethnicities) thought the decision to allow the logging company to operate in the traditional forest is only one ethnicities (Punan) without telling the other ethnicities.”
“This decision is only by one ethnicity only, but actually there are (in Seturan) ethnicities dayak of Abay, Merap, Merau, Bilau and Punan, they are all related.”
Feeling that the decision on allowing the company is done by one ethnicity, the other ethnicities are not approving. According to Atong Aran, they are requesting that the other 4 ethnicities be involved with in every decision on traditional people rights.
They also acknowledged that before the logging company entered to location, village residents never received the explanation on the planning of the company going to the community traditional forest.
“At the beginning there was no notification to us. May be the company only informed only the undeveloped ethnic Punan” explained Atong Aran.
That is why from 4 ethnicities lived in Sentaban village, expecting this problem be resolved in family spirit.
If it cannot be solved in this meeting now, they suggest the company which is operating now be terminated temporarily until there is agreement.
“We are not expecting the community be suffering and became victims. If the problem is between community and the government, or the community and the company, the conflict is still resolvable. But if the conflict happened between communities, it could end up in chasing each other and caused the riot like yesterday, he said”
Budiansyah, the representative of PT BKS conceded that it has informed the community including government before operating.
However, after 3 months in operation, there is new problem from a group of claiming the area as their area.
He was also present as a good listener on this conflict of area ownership by several groups who are claiming and counter-claiming with the size of the area is 47.000 ha. Budiansyah is also looking for the truth.
“We have done a socialisation to one of the village at the district government, however other community complained on this problem.
The complainers had also reported the case to sub district Police for requesting to organize a meeting and in that meeting i will be present for finding which party is the right one,” said Budiansyah when questioned in the front of Mentarang sub district police station Friday 9 January 2007.
Meanwhile the acting sub district head, Marson R Langub after leading a meeting from the two disputing group confessed still confused. Ida/jpnn
Sumber: http://www.rakyatmerdeka.co.id/indexframe.php?url=nusantara/index.php?q=news&id=4460
Translated by Rayan 23 June 2009.
Rakyat Merdeka. February 2007
Due to the boundary claimed as traditional land, two villages were in the brink of clashing that is Respen Tubu village and Sentaban, East Kalimantan.
Even, the village clash did not happened, the punching of one of the village resident in the dispute did occur at the traditional leaders meeting of the two villagers on Friday 9 February 2007.
Because of the punching, the victim brought to clinic Mentarang due to bleeding nose. Even though there was agreement for both villagers to keep emotion down during the meeting. It was also suggested by both village leaders to keep calm.
Traditional leader of Dayak Merau, Atong Aran with one resident said the problem aroused out of unhappiness of their group due to the boundary of the forest claimed by them. “This disputed boundary claimed as traditional forest is in the area of PT Batu Karang Sakti. They (Seturan 4 dayak ethnicities) thought the decision to allow the logging company to operate in the traditional forest is only one ethnicities (Punan) without telling the other ethnicities.”
“This decision is only by one ethnicity only, but actually there are (in Seturan) ethnicities dayak of Abay, Merap, Merau, Bilau and Punan, they are all related.”
Feeling that the decision on allowing the company is done by one ethnicity, the other ethnicities are not approving. According to Atong Aran, they are requesting that the other 4 ethnicities be involved with in every decision on traditional people rights.
They also acknowledged that before the logging company entered to location, village residents never received the explanation on the planning of the company going to the community traditional forest.
“At the beginning there was no notification to us. May be the company only informed only the undeveloped ethnic Punan” explained Atong Aran.
That is why from 4 ethnicities lived in Sentaban village, expecting this problem be resolved in family spirit.
If it cannot be solved in this meeting now, they suggest the company which is operating now be terminated temporarily until there is agreement.
“We are not expecting the community be suffering and became victims. If the problem is between community and the government, or the community and the company, the conflict is still resolvable. But if the conflict happened between communities, it could end up in chasing each other and caused the riot like yesterday, he said”
Budiansyah, the representative of PT BKS conceded that it has informed the community including government before operating.
However, after 3 months in operation, there is new problem from a group of claiming the area as their area.
He was also present as a good listener on this conflict of area ownership by several groups who are claiming and counter-claiming with the size of the area is 47.000 ha. Budiansyah is also looking for the truth.
“We have done a socialisation to one of the village at the district government, however other community complained on this problem.
The complainers had also reported the case to sub district Police for requesting to organize a meeting and in that meeting i will be present for finding which party is the right one,” said Budiansyah when questioned in the front of Mentarang sub district police station Friday 9 January 2007.
Meanwhile the acting sub district head, Marson R Langub after leading a meeting from the two disputing group confessed still confused. Ida/jpnn
Sumber: http://www.rakyatmerdeka.co.id/indexframe.php?url=nusantara/index.php?q=news&id=4460
Translated by Rayan 23 June 2009.
Dayak, Ethnicities and Conflicts
Mohamad Rayan. Reporting.
Malinau. Simmering under the surface in Malinau is fragile ethnicities relationship. This is latest update report from the conservation district. It would not be a long report.
Well, it started as usual when Marcus and i came to ask the question on any conflicts with the neighbouring villages, the Setarap leader confessed that they have problems with Setulang village and Punan Setarap. Couple days later Setulang leaders informed me that they are having negotiation meeting on disputed area for farming with Setarap residents. The disputed area issue is not resolved yet. The area is disputed due to the fact there will be a palm oil plantation planning to open near the disputed area. This will be reported in the next report in Konservasiindonesia (KI).
Actually the report by Cifor on their study of village boundary couple years ago before they ceased program in Malinau, there always be potential conflicts on the ground. And at the core of the conflict normally there is issue of economic interest such when mining or logging company wanted to open the operation in an area.
In this desk report, i would just paste the translation i did from a newspaper article in February 2007 below and previous article in KI.
Claiming village traditional forest, two ethnic Dayak closed to clashing
Mohamad Rayan. Translator.
Rakyat Merdeka. February 2007
Due to the boundary claimed as traditional land, two villages were in the brink of clashing that is Respen Tubu village and Sentaban, East Kalimantan.
Even, the village clash did not happened, the punching of one of the village resident in the dispute did occur at the traditional leaders meeting of the two villagers on Friday 9 February 2007.
Because of the punching, the victim brought to clinic Mentarang due to bleeding nose. Even though there was agreement for both villagers to keep emotion down during the meeting. It was also suggested by both village leaders to keep calm.
Traditional leader of Dayak Merau, Atong Aran with one resident said the problem aroused out of unhappiness of their group due to the boundary of the forest claimed by them. “This disputed boundary claimed as traditional forest is in the area of PT BKS. They (Seturan 4 dayak ethnicities) thought the decision to allow the logging to operate in the traditional forest is only one ethnicities (Punan) without telling the other ethnicities.”
“This decision is only by one ethnicity only, but actually there are (in Seturan) ethnicities dayak of Abay, Merap, Merau, Bilau and Punan, they are all related.”
Feeling that the decision on allowing the company is done by one ethnicity, the other ethnicities are not approving. According to Atong Aran, they are requesting that the other 4 ethnicities be involved with in every decision on traditional people rights.
They also acknowledged that before the logging company entered to location, village residents never received the explanation on the planning of the company going to the community traditional forest.
“At the beginning there was no notification to us. May be the company only informed only the undeveloped ethnic Punan” explained Atong Aran.
That is why from 4 ethnicities lived in Sentaban village, expecting this problem be resolved in family spirit.
If it cannot be solved in this meeting now, they suggest the company which is operating now be terminated temporarily until there is agreement.
“We are not expecting the community be suffering and became victims. If the problem is between community and the government, or the community and the company, the conflict is still resolvable. But if the conflict happened between communities, it could end up in chasing each other and caused the riot like yesterday, he said”
Budiansyah, the representative of PT BKS conceded that it has informed the community including government before operating.
However, after 3 months in operation, there is new problem from a group of claiming the area as their area.
He was also present as a good listener on this conflict of area ownership by several groups who are claiming and counter-claiming with the size of the area is 47.000 ha. Budiansyah is also looking for the truth.
“We have done a socialisation to one of the village at the district government, however other community complained on this problem.
The complainers had also reported the case to sub district Police for requesting to organize a meeting and in that meeting i will be present for finding which party is the right one,” said Budiansyah when questioned in the front of Mentarang sub district police station Friday 9 January 2007.
Meanwhile the acting sub district head, Marson R Langub after leading a meeting from the two disputing group confessed still confused. Ida/jpnn
Sumber: http://www.rakyatmerdeka.co.id/indexframe.php?url=nusantara/index.php?q=news&id=4460
Translated by Rayan 23 June 2009.
Malinau. Simmering under the surface in Malinau is fragile ethnicities relationship. This is latest update report from the conservation district. It would not be a long report.
Well, it started as usual when Marcus and i came to ask the question on any conflicts with the neighbouring villages, the Setarap leader confessed that they have problems with Setulang village and Punan Setarap. Couple days later Setulang leaders informed me that they are having negotiation meeting on disputed area for farming with Setarap residents. The disputed area issue is not resolved yet. The area is disputed due to the fact there will be a palm oil plantation planning to open near the disputed area. This will be reported in the next report in Konservasiindonesia (KI).
Actually the report by Cifor on their study of village boundary couple years ago before they ceased program in Malinau, there always be potential conflicts on the ground. And at the core of the conflict normally there is issue of economic interest such when mining or logging company wanted to open the operation in an area.
In this desk report, i would just paste the translation i did from a newspaper article in February 2007 below and previous article in KI.
Claiming village traditional forest, two ethnic Dayak closed to clashing
Mohamad Rayan. Translator.
Rakyat Merdeka. February 2007
Due to the boundary claimed as traditional land, two villages were in the brink of clashing that is Respen Tubu village and Sentaban, East Kalimantan.
Even, the village clash did not happened, the punching of one of the village resident in the dispute did occur at the traditional leaders meeting of the two villagers on Friday 9 February 2007.
Because of the punching, the victim brought to clinic Mentarang due to bleeding nose. Even though there was agreement for both villagers to keep emotion down during the meeting. It was also suggested by both village leaders to keep calm.
Traditional leader of Dayak Merau, Atong Aran with one resident said the problem aroused out of unhappiness of their group due to the boundary of the forest claimed by them. “This disputed boundary claimed as traditional forest is in the area of PT BKS. They (Seturan 4 dayak ethnicities) thought the decision to allow the logging to operate in the traditional forest is only one ethnicities (Punan) without telling the other ethnicities.”
“This decision is only by one ethnicity only, but actually there are (in Seturan) ethnicities dayak of Abay, Merap, Merau, Bilau and Punan, they are all related.”
Feeling that the decision on allowing the company is done by one ethnicity, the other ethnicities are not approving. According to Atong Aran, they are requesting that the other 4 ethnicities be involved with in every decision on traditional people rights.
They also acknowledged that before the logging company entered to location, village residents never received the explanation on the planning of the company going to the community traditional forest.
“At the beginning there was no notification to us. May be the company only informed only the undeveloped ethnic Punan” explained Atong Aran.
That is why from 4 ethnicities lived in Sentaban village, expecting this problem be resolved in family spirit.
If it cannot be solved in this meeting now, they suggest the company which is operating now be terminated temporarily until there is agreement.
“We are not expecting the community be suffering and became victims. If the problem is between community and the government, or the community and the company, the conflict is still resolvable. But if the conflict happened between communities, it could end up in chasing each other and caused the riot like yesterday, he said”
Budiansyah, the representative of PT BKS conceded that it has informed the community including government before operating.
However, after 3 months in operation, there is new problem from a group of claiming the area as their area.
He was also present as a good listener on this conflict of area ownership by several groups who are claiming and counter-claiming with the size of the area is 47.000 ha. Budiansyah is also looking for the truth.
“We have done a socialisation to one of the village at the district government, however other community complained on this problem.
The complainers had also reported the case to sub district Police for requesting to organize a meeting and in that meeting i will be present for finding which party is the right one,” said Budiansyah when questioned in the front of Mentarang sub district police station Friday 9 January 2007.
Meanwhile the acting sub district head, Marson R Langub after leading a meeting from the two disputing group confessed still confused. Ida/jpnn
Sumber: http://www.rakyatmerdeka.co.id/indexframe.php?url=nusantara/index.php?q=news&id=4460
Translated by Rayan 23 June 2009.
Senin, 22 Juni 2009
Story of Viat
Mohamad Rayan, Malinau
The story of viat began when Marcus and i went visiting Punan Setarap village at the beginning of the end of May 2009. it was a hot day when we arrive at the village. We were accompany by Long Kebinu resident who stirred the Ketingting for us to reach Setarap and Punan setarap villages.
In Setarap village we did our routine survey of the village demography. It was normal answers we receive from them on population, on education, on health, on diet, on livelihoods, logging activities, on occupation, on village harmony etc, etc, etc.
On the issue of border harmony, they explained that they informed us that some of their old residents decided to move out and set their own village. Since most of deciding to move out are of the Punan dayak ethnicities, hence the village is known Punan setarap village. According to Setarap leader, they decide to move to have more independence in managing themselves.
We walked along Punan Setarap people and asked for the residence of the head of the village. Several Punan kids pointed to the house on the top of the hill. Yes, most of the village in Malinau are built along Malinau river in East Kalimantan. And Punan Setarap is in the top of the hill.
We were welcomed by the head of the village, Alan Laing. His father is Ruit Laing as the traditional village leader. He was 1.60 metres or less and his physic fits to its height. He was open but reserved in answering our questions. Mind you he is getting nearly 200 questions from us.
May be from the name, we would guess they are already modernised. Yes, they have TV and with satelite dishes. However the village only have two generators to bring electricity to the village.
On the question of their name, ah, what is in the name. The dayak now have modern name such as Marcus, Ramses, Dany etc because the Protestant missionary had been here since 1960s maybe since the Dutch colonilization time. Beside the Protestant, there is also Catholic among Dayak population in Malinau.
In Punan Setarap the village we visited, there exists only Catholic Church catering for 187 people. There is a primary school with local teacher only.
Not long, his wife brought the coffee out to us. The coffee is the harvest from their own farm. Their ladang is across the river. Marcus loved the coffee. It seems coffee fits to the climate and easy to plant and not too much maintainance. It could be argued the coffee introduction by government for livelihoods is a success story.
Toward the end of discussion, Mr. Alan Laing, told us the story of Viat. It is a creature of tiger look alike. Marcus was startled and wanted to know more. It could be a finding like they were finding Pygmy Elephants. The Viat is siluman, changing form. It could be human look alike and could also be tiger look alike.
Is there Viat? I wonder.
The story of viat began when Marcus and i went visiting Punan Setarap village at the beginning of the end of May 2009. it was a hot day when we arrive at the village. We were accompany by Long Kebinu resident who stirred the Ketingting for us to reach Setarap and Punan setarap villages.
In Setarap village we did our routine survey of the village demography. It was normal answers we receive from them on population, on education, on health, on diet, on livelihoods, logging activities, on occupation, on village harmony etc, etc, etc.
On the issue of border harmony, they explained that they informed us that some of their old residents decided to move out and set their own village. Since most of deciding to move out are of the Punan dayak ethnicities, hence the village is known Punan setarap village. According to Setarap leader, they decide to move to have more independence in managing themselves.
We walked along Punan Setarap people and asked for the residence of the head of the village. Several Punan kids pointed to the house on the top of the hill. Yes, most of the village in Malinau are built along Malinau river in East Kalimantan. And Punan Setarap is in the top of the hill.
We were welcomed by the head of the village, Alan Laing. His father is Ruit Laing as the traditional village leader. He was 1.60 metres or less and his physic fits to its height. He was open but reserved in answering our questions. Mind you he is getting nearly 200 questions from us.
May be from the name, we would guess they are already modernised. Yes, they have TV and with satelite dishes. However the village only have two generators to bring electricity to the village.
On the question of their name, ah, what is in the name. The dayak now have modern name such as Marcus, Ramses, Dany etc because the Protestant missionary had been here since 1960s maybe since the Dutch colonilization time. Beside the Protestant, there is also Catholic among Dayak population in Malinau.
In Punan Setarap the village we visited, there exists only Catholic Church catering for 187 people. There is a primary school with local teacher only.
Not long, his wife brought the coffee out to us. The coffee is the harvest from their own farm. Their ladang is across the river. Marcus loved the coffee. It seems coffee fits to the climate and easy to plant and not too much maintainance. It could be argued the coffee introduction by government for livelihoods is a success story.
Toward the end of discussion, Mr. Alan Laing, told us the story of Viat. It is a creature of tiger look alike. Marcus was startled and wanted to know more. It could be a finding like they were finding Pygmy Elephants. The Viat is siluman, changing form. It could be human look alike and could also be tiger look alike.
Is there Viat? I wonder.
Rayan in Malinau
Pembantain Orangutan di Kalimantan
Pembatain Orangutan
Mohamad Rayan M.Ec
Pembantaian Orangutan menjadi berita besar di London, Inggris. Berita ini dimuat oleh Koran Inggris, Daily Exprees, UK pada tanggal 28 Mei 2009.
Dalam laporan itu diberitakan pembantain orangutan di Indonesia terutama di Kalimantan. Adapun aktor pembantaian adalah pembuka-pembuka lahan untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit yang berlebihan. Dengan proses yang tidak terkontrol ini dalam satu dekade kedepan orang-utan akan punah. Pembuka lahan membunuh orangutan karena dianggap sebagai hama penganggu.
Didalam berita itu juga digambarkan keserakaan pemangku kepentingan (stakeholder) dalam membuka lahan kelapa sawit. Adapun argumennya adalah sebenarnya kelapa sawit bisa ditanam dilahan yang sudah rusak atau bekas HPH, namun hampir semua izin pembukaan lahan kelapa sawit di berikan di daerah yang masih ada hutan alam.
Jelas keserakaan untuk mengambil keuntungan y ang berlebihan dalam proses pembukaan lahan perkebunan kelapa sawit ini. Dengan membuka lahan dari hutan alam si pengusaha mendapatkan kayu yang hampir ratusan tahun umurnya dipotong dan dijual untuk produk kayu. Kiat lama yang dipakai baron kayu ketika pada zaman order baru. Rupanya kiat ini masih berlangsung. Pasti semua kebagian toh. Malah lebih serakah lagi, setelah diambil kayunya, perkebunan ditinggal. Inilah yang menyebabkan pembantaian orangutan yang tinggal dihutan alam dan hutan hujan tropis.
Hutan hujan tropis penting untuk menyealamatkan orang-utan terutama hutan tropis di Kalimantan dimana 90% orang-utan masih hidup. Selain intu hutan hujan tropis penting untuk menjaga kesehatan planet bumi. Hutan ini mecegah pemanasan bumi dengan mengabsorbsi karbondioksida, bagian penting dari siklus air dan pencegah kekeringan. Di hutan hujan tropis ada juga 420 spesies burung, 210 mamalia, 254 reptilia dan 368 jenis ikan airtawar.
Jumlah populasi orang-utan menurut data Direktorat Perlindungan Hutan dan konservasi Alam diperkirakan ada 61,234. Dari jumlah tersebut 54,567 hidup di Pulau Kalimantan dan 6,667 di pulau Sumatera. Lebih rinci lagi ada 4,825 orangutan di Kaltim, 31,300 di Kalteng, 7,425 di Kalbar, Serawak dan Sabah. Di Sumatera, orangutan ada 43 di Seulawah, 103 Aceh Barat, Aceh Timur (337), Leuser Barat (2,508), Sidiangkat (134), Leuser Timur(1,042), Tripa (280), Trumon-Singkil (1,500), Rawa Singkil Timur (160), Batang Toru Barat (400) dan Sarulla Timur(150).
Willie Smits, pendiri Borneo Orang-utan Survival foundation, telah menampung 1000 orangutan di pusat rehabilitasi orang-utan. Orangutan yang ditampung adalah korban dari pembukaan perkebunanan kelapa sawit di Kalimantan. Industri kelapa sawit dunia beromsetkan 14 miliar poundsterling.
Lone droscher-nielsen, salah satu pejuang orang-utan, mantan pramugari Swiss Airline SAS menjaga 600 orangutan di Nyaru meneteng Centre di Kalteng. Lone mengatakan akibat pembukaan lahan kelapa sawit, setiap 30 detik hutan hujan tropis dibabat sebesar satu lapangan bola. Seabad lalu ada 300,000 orang utan, dalam sepuluh tahun kedepan mereka akan punah.
Dalam memitigasi kemusnahan orang-utan, pemerintah telah merencanakan beberapa program.
Program-program tersebut adalah pendidikan konservasi, penelitian mengenai konservasi orangutan yang berkesinambungan, meningkatkan kerjasama dengan masyarakat lingkungan, membentuk forum untuk memonitor penegakan peraturan, pengaturan penebangan pada habitat orangutan, mengeluarkan undang-undang melarang pertambangan di kawasan habitat orangutan dan penegakan hukum dan patroli melawan penyeledup satwa seperi di laporkan di Koran The Jakarta Post tanggal 13 Juni 2008. Semuakan akan dicapai pada tahun 2017. Rencana memang bagus tapi kenyataanya kita tunggu.
Salam Konservasiindonesia
Mohamad Rayan M.Ec
Pembantaian Orangutan menjadi berita besar di London, Inggris. Berita ini dimuat oleh Koran Inggris, Daily Exprees, UK pada tanggal 28 Mei 2009.
Dalam laporan itu diberitakan pembantain orangutan di Indonesia terutama di Kalimantan. Adapun aktor pembantaian adalah pembuka-pembuka lahan untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit yang berlebihan. Dengan proses yang tidak terkontrol ini dalam satu dekade kedepan orang-utan akan punah. Pembuka lahan membunuh orangutan karena dianggap sebagai hama penganggu.
Didalam berita itu juga digambarkan keserakaan pemangku kepentingan (stakeholder) dalam membuka lahan kelapa sawit. Adapun argumennya adalah sebenarnya kelapa sawit bisa ditanam dilahan yang sudah rusak atau bekas HPH, namun hampir semua izin pembukaan lahan kelapa sawit di berikan di daerah yang masih ada hutan alam.
Jelas keserakaan untuk mengambil keuntungan y ang berlebihan dalam proses pembukaan lahan perkebunan kelapa sawit ini. Dengan membuka lahan dari hutan alam si pengusaha mendapatkan kayu yang hampir ratusan tahun umurnya dipotong dan dijual untuk produk kayu. Kiat lama yang dipakai baron kayu ketika pada zaman order baru. Rupanya kiat ini masih berlangsung. Pasti semua kebagian toh. Malah lebih serakah lagi, setelah diambil kayunya, perkebunan ditinggal. Inilah yang menyebabkan pembantaian orangutan yang tinggal dihutan alam dan hutan hujan tropis.
Hutan hujan tropis penting untuk menyealamatkan orang-utan terutama hutan tropis di Kalimantan dimana 90% orang-utan masih hidup. Selain intu hutan hujan tropis penting untuk menjaga kesehatan planet bumi. Hutan ini mecegah pemanasan bumi dengan mengabsorbsi karbondioksida, bagian penting dari siklus air dan pencegah kekeringan. Di hutan hujan tropis ada juga 420 spesies burung, 210 mamalia, 254 reptilia dan 368 jenis ikan airtawar.
Jumlah populasi orang-utan menurut data Direktorat Perlindungan Hutan dan konservasi Alam diperkirakan ada 61,234. Dari jumlah tersebut 54,567 hidup di Pulau Kalimantan dan 6,667 di pulau Sumatera. Lebih rinci lagi ada 4,825 orangutan di Kaltim, 31,300 di Kalteng, 7,425 di Kalbar, Serawak dan Sabah. Di Sumatera, orangutan ada 43 di Seulawah, 103 Aceh Barat, Aceh Timur (337), Leuser Barat (2,508), Sidiangkat (134), Leuser Timur(1,042), Tripa (280), Trumon-Singkil (1,500), Rawa Singkil Timur (160), Batang Toru Barat (400) dan Sarulla Timur(150).
Willie Smits, pendiri Borneo Orang-utan Survival foundation, telah menampung 1000 orangutan di pusat rehabilitasi orang-utan. Orangutan yang ditampung adalah korban dari pembukaan perkebunanan kelapa sawit di Kalimantan. Industri kelapa sawit dunia beromsetkan 14 miliar poundsterling.
Lone droscher-nielsen, salah satu pejuang orang-utan, mantan pramugari Swiss Airline SAS menjaga 600 orangutan di Nyaru meneteng Centre di Kalteng. Lone mengatakan akibat pembukaan lahan kelapa sawit, setiap 30 detik hutan hujan tropis dibabat sebesar satu lapangan bola. Seabad lalu ada 300,000 orang utan, dalam sepuluh tahun kedepan mereka akan punah.
Dalam memitigasi kemusnahan orang-utan, pemerintah telah merencanakan beberapa program.
Program-program tersebut adalah pendidikan konservasi, penelitian mengenai konservasi orangutan yang berkesinambungan, meningkatkan kerjasama dengan masyarakat lingkungan, membentuk forum untuk memonitor penegakan peraturan, pengaturan penebangan pada habitat orangutan, mengeluarkan undang-undang melarang pertambangan di kawasan habitat orangutan dan penegakan hukum dan patroli melawan penyeledup satwa seperi di laporkan di Koran The Jakarta Post tanggal 13 Juni 2008. Semuakan akan dicapai pada tahun 2017. Rencana memang bagus tapi kenyataanya kita tunggu.
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