The Carbon Center’s Staggered Walk
Fire raged across part of the ecosystem restoration area of Katingan Mentaya Project in Central Kalimantan. This world’s largest in the carbon trading program has been surrounded by oil palm plantations. The absence of the government regulation worsens the condition. Tempo collaborates with a Dutch investigative media organisation Investico and Narasi to make this report.
Gabriel Wahyu Titiyoga
December 17, 2019
ABDUL Wahab had to turn his motor boat around in order to return home. Smoke from the fire near the end of the Hantipan canal in the Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan, that September, was too thick to navigate through. He changed his mind upon seeing a group of people waiting for boat along the dock. This 30-kilometer long canal is the main access for residents of Katingan to get across the peatlands to reach the Sungai Mentaya (Mentaya River)
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