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Illegal loggingNoriko Toyoda West Kalimantan photos II

Fisika lingkungan

Leo Sutrisno2007


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Fibers from the forest

are essential for

making mats, baskets

and other tools fordaily chores
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Malaysian backedoperations are usually

better equipped with

heavy machinery, first

opening roads with

bulldozers and

extracting with trucks.
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Even in the remotevillages, need for cash isincreasing. Whiletraditional sources ofcash are limited to crops,

such as rubber , pepperand coffee, cash isneeded to buy manythings, such as gas, fuel,oil, clothes, and other

basic goods. Beyond thebare essentials, manyvillages now also boastVCD players, satellitedishes, and pickup trucks.
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Environmental impacts arealso already apparent aswatersheds become too dirtyor dry. Many people still relyon rivers for drinking and

cooking water, washing andbathing. In this photo, peopleride on trucks owned by aMalaysian timber company tothis river each evening tobathe and take water back, as

their own river is dry fromseveral years of intensivelogging.
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Malaysian investors woocommunities withpromises to build roads,bring water pumps, power

generators, and cashpayments, in return forcheap logs. While thecompensation may seemminiscule in light of high

price of tropical timber inthe international market,this fills a need for remotevillages
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Communities are

often lured with the

promise of better life

from oil palmplantations, causing

them to give up

valuable forests that

provided food,medicine and other

materials.
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Many commercially

valuable species are

found in lowland

swamp forests
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Dependence on natural wealth from the forests is

still strong in the interior communities.
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Many

communities still

rely on shifting

cultivation for

subsistence.
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Social impacts of illegallogging on communitiesinclude the increase inincidences of

"horizontal conflict"among villages.Territorial disputes overtraditional borders arebecoming more

frequent as contractloggers move into newareas
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Illegal logging is

now rampant in

most national parksand protected

forests. With

regional autonomy,

local governmentcan now create

small-scale logging

concessions, many

of which extract

timber from

protected areas
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Another social shift

can be seen in the

increasedinvolvement of

women in an activity

traditionally reserved

for young adult male
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Will this tree

survive in the

next 10

years?
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Even

childrenjoin the

loggingcrew
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Hunting in forests and

fishing in rivers

provide vital protein,but livestock breeding

is also becoming

more common as

natural resources

become more scarce.Even in lake

communities of

Danau Sentarum,

cattle is kept in pens

on floating platforms,like the houses in the

back.
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Since the

Sarawak state

government

prohibits the

import of rawlogs, many small-

scale sawmills

have sprung up

all along theborder
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It may not be too

long before fish asbig as this one can

no longer be found

in the upper

reaches of theKapuas river
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Locally operated teams log and extract

timber with simple tools
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Strangler

fig trunk
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Where will the forests and people

of Kalimantan be in 10 years?
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