Filed under: Nature-Call
IT’S WAY into the peat swamp forest at Air Hitam. The peat-land is one of the natural riches of Central Kalimantan. It must be revitalized as a buffer area of ecosystem and away from the threat of fire which is easily approached. The expectations are maintained turf, sustainable forest and tackled the gas emission of greenhouse effect.
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Central Kalimantan province has a tropical climate. Therefore, it has abundant natural wealth. Results of Central Kalimantan forest and the earth is rattan, resins, wood, honey and jelutung (Dyera lowii) and others. All of which have many known and marketed nationally but internationally.
But those natural resources have been divided. Large companies and private property of the state had taken control of the mostly area of Central Kalimantan with the monopoly of the land’s politically. They took the land and other agrarian resources as a part of the means of production. These are land-based production efforts produced food and raw materials to overseas markets objectives. As a commodity that has exchange value and price. Which, in turn, they are used as ingredients in a large industrial base led by imperialist in order to create products with new value.
Generally large estates class private and government expands land through Land grabbed belonging to the peasant and indigenous forest management area. Extensive land ownership and land-grabbing are the most under-developed form of plantation to be taken as a scheme to increase production and reduce labor cost.
Filed under: Women
WOMEN participate in agricultural production as part of a family of peasantry in rural areas. She used a hoe as a traditional working tool to cultivate dried-upland. This is one option for them other than work abroad as migrant workers.
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Becoming migrant workers is a dream for women in that village. Bigger salary as housemaids are the reason they left the family. Sufferings abused migrant workers who often watched and heard from various electronic media did not even dampen step. “Our village is poor. We do not want to come [be] poor, “said, let’s say, Ito.
Ito was a young woman of twenty-five years old and had just got married last month. While the average age of women in the village already has several children. “I have late on married due to Saudi for three rounds,” he explained.
As she talked at length about housework while become migrant workers in Saudi Arabian, Ito said that nearly 90% of women in her village work as laborers in foreign countries. Most of them fly to the Arabian Peninsula and Malaysia. While others go to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Among of them, Saudi Arabian’s alumni are most famous was the one who shines in the village. It is characterized by the establishment of stately homes. Are like a house in the big city.
Filed under: Peasantry
EBLEK [Sundanese = signpost of zinc] made by Perhutani marked Prohibited work and/or use or occupation of forest land illegally – UU RI no. 41 Year in 1999, whereas there is no more wood in this area. Perhutani is a state-corporation who carried out forests in Java Island. They produced timber and non-timber products. And Teak-wood is the most valuable timber which grown in Java Island.
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Previously not any single stem perennials produced Perhutani grew at an area block 39 which is known cultivators as the region Tegal Datar, Kutatandingan’s Area, some place at West Java. Atan Nurmana Jaya [39], local activists peasant organization, said that Perhutani have abandoned the land in the area after the harvesting of teak in 1996 ago.
“We manage this land for displaced upland rice, beans and bananas. To enrich the soil, we also planted with wood like jeunjing (Albazia falcataria), kapok (Ceiba pentandra) and bamboo, since we had no more land in our village, “added Atan. He and dozens of other farmers choose working in the forest area neglected for the sake of the family.
Now the rainy season has arrived. In the midst of Atan and friends prepare to cultivate land suddenly parties Perhutani also getting ready on location with jeunjing/sengon’s tree. “This is the implementation of the policy of forest management with the Community [well known as Pengelolaan Hutan Bersama Maysarakat PHBM in Bahasa Indonesia]”, said Rahmat [47] one of the Perhutani’s officer. The policy was organized in cooperation with the Institute of Rural Forest Community [Lembaga Masyarakat Desa Hutan LMDH in Bahasa Indonesia] on Parung Mulya Village, Ciampel Sub-District, “So we’ve coordinated with the community”, added Rahmat.
Is it true? No it isn’t. It is apparently not according to the cultivators of forest.
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