Photos for WALHI Kalteng / DTE report on CDC's Agroindomas oil palm plantation, Central Kalimantan


DOWN TO EARTH, September 2000





1. The remains of community forest on the ege of oil palm plantation after burning 3 months earlier. On R. Rungau above Terawan. Note forest in the background.



2. Lampasa Village seen from Lake Sembuluh. Agro-forestry plots behind the houses.



3. Native rubber plantation on edge of Lampasa village. The house, like all local houses, is made of timber from local forests.



4. The lake shore at Sembuluh, where wooden boats are under construction.



5. The main street in Lampasa village. The road has been hardened by PT AI as a service to the community. Note the variety of fruit trees planted around people's homes.



6. Stumps are all that remains of an agro-forestry plot about 1km east of Lampasa.



7. Agrochemical packaging at the above site: inorganic potash and phosphate fertiliser and a herbicide (Starane 200).



8. Remains of forest tree at the lakeside with oil palm beyond. Oil palms were planted within 50 metres of the shore at this and many other locations. The regulation distance is 200m.



9. Muslim graves at a sacred site (Sungai Rangko).
Some are nearly 150 years old.



10. Oil palms planted on a marshy site near Terawan, formerly used to grow rice. The remains of trees in the background belie PT AI's account that the plantation was established largely on coarse grassland.



11. Oil palm above Lampasa, established on a Sembuluh man's family land several km from his village.



12. Oil palms planted well within 30m of the lake shore. The photograph was taken from a moored boat.



13. Illegal sawmill on oil palm plantation near Lampasa



14. Dayak mausoleum and funerary carvings at Bangkal village.



15. The cleared remains of community forest along the R. Rungau. Maturing secondary forest is clearly visible in the background.








All photo credits: DTE

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