CATEGORIES:
< 10 Minutes, Climate Action, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous
KEYWORDS:
Indonesia, Climate Change, Conservation, Community Organizing, Development, Ecology, Nature, Resilience, Southeast Asia
Director: Paul Redman
Producer: Tim Lewis
2014 | 7 min
Southeast Asia
Indonesia
Languages: Indonesian
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese
The indigenous people of Sungai Utik, a Dayak Iban community in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, have maintained a strong traditional connection to their forests despite continuous pressure from logging and palm oil companies intent on taking their land. Their forests remain intact and their traditional values are keeping their community together. If we want to keep forests we need to trust and support communities like the indigenous Dayak Iban. As they tackle the impacts of climate change, through the sustainable forestry traditional both to their culture and to their understanding of nature, they can offer us climate solutions and hope for the future.
