Lamandapi’s Message for the Sea
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The World Ocean Conference has produced a five-point accord. It will serve as important input to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. But many critics said the meeting was remote from real issues. For instance, there’s no place for traditional fishermen upset by the effects of climate change.
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LAMANDAPI longs to have the sea of former times. This fisherman on Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, perceives a change affecting the sea he loves most. The maritime knowledge he has inherited from ancestral masters of the sea, is no longer accurate to predict the beginning of the west and east winds. “We often get no fish with raging waves,” the 60-year-old man told Tempo.
Demianus, a fisherman from Saubeba village, Sorong regency, Papua,
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