Bayu Gawtama
The Rain Dance
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
THE drizzle in Depok, West Java, one evening at the end of November refreshed Bayu Gawtama's memory. The previous month, deep in the center of Kalimantan, he remembered how he had been longing for rain. "Only rain can put out this forest fire," Gawas Bayu Gawtama is familiarly calledtold Tempo.
The 41-year-old man could still feel the heat of the raging fire in the forest of Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan. For over two weeks, he braved the flames with little rest. That midnight, it started to rain.
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THE drizzle in Depok, West Java, one evening at the end of November refreshed Bayu Gawtama's memory. The previous month, deep in the center of Kalimantan, he remembered how he had been longing for rain. "Only rain can put out this forest fire," Gawas Bayu Gawtama is familiarly calledtold Tempo.
The 41-year-old man could still feel the heat of the raging fire in the forest of Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan. For over two weeks, he braved the flames
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