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Borderline (19/03/2008)
Borderlines
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Borderlines: Vietnam's Booming Furniture Industry and
Timber Smuggling in the Mekong Region.
Water Crisis in the City of Rain (21 January 2005)
Water Crisis in the City of Rain
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Bogor City is one of the cities with highest rainfall in Indonesia. Ironically, it is experiencing water crisis due to the degraded catchments areas in the headwaters. The video highlights environmental degradation resulting from non ecologically-based spatial plan. Surrounded by mountains, the city serves as the catchments area for the area as well as for the lower land. The ecosystem degradation will affect the country’s populous capital, Jakarta, to which the city rivers empty.
Coconut Palm Sugar (10 August 2004)
Coconut Palm Sugar
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Palm sugar is one of common community’s commodities. Like other small-scale industries, it is often regarded as less important subsistence business applying low technology and skill. The video features Marno and his family – a typical and modest palm sugar maker – and Mr. Sarkum – a successful palm sugar businessman, who started their businesses right from the bottom. Now, the production has been sent to all over Indonesia and even to Singapore! See more on www.dianniaga.com, and www.ntfp.org.
Bring Me to Life (15 Maret 2004)
Bring Me to Life
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Indonesia’s coral reefs have been depleted by destructive fishing, notably cyanide fishing. Law enforcers have been reluctant to curb the practice as they have been benefiting from it. Police raids have been used as a new means of extortion.
Profiting from Plunder (4 February 2004)
Profiting from Plunder
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The video details how ramin, the precious hardwood banned for export, is illegally shipped from Sumatera to Pasir Gudang Port in Johor Baru, Malaysia. There, ramin logs are dried and attached with falsified Malaysia paperwork before exported to Hong Kong and mainland China. In China, they are processed into various end-products such as picture frames and snooker cues and exported to international markets, including the US and Europe.
Above the Law (13 January 2003)
Above the Law
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Law enforcers should have taken strict legal actions against big timber barons such as Abdul Rasyid, member of the People’s Consultative Council of Indonesia (MPR), whose companies stands accused of being behind the destruction of Tanjung Puting National Park, transporting illegal logs, bribery, kidnap and violence. Abdul Rasyid is an example of the inability of Indonesia’s law enforcers to uphold the law.
Planting Disaster (2000)
Planting Disaster
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Rather than inviting investment and prospering the nation, Indonesia has planted disaster through its oil palm development scheme – the scheme that has been generating conflicts with indigenous.
The Report (Planting Disaster - Biodiversity, Social Economy, Human Rights Issues in Large-Scale Oil Palm Plantation in Indonesia) could be found on here.
© Madanika, Puti Jaji, and Telapak 2000.
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