Friday, January 11, 2008
East Kalimantan, Environment, and Tractor Tyres
This past week, I had the opportunity to go around East Kalimantan, using the time to broaden my personal and professional perspectives.
The trip was very tiring though. It was three towns in three days, using both small planes and car trips to go around. We hung out until midnight, just because our hosts are "sungkan" (tried to please us), while my body and mind were screaming for us to get to bed already... and yes I am getting old...
The experience underlines again on how rich Indonesia is, if only someone wants to manage it right, with long-term perspectives. Currently, the area is rich because the government is selling land-use concessions for their own benefit so that big companies can build mining operations and destroy the environment.
Seriously, I was shocked to hear that even companies who claimed that they are "green" are burying their used tractor tires undereath the top soil...
When we asked, the reps said, it does nothing to the environment..
Yeah right... maybe after 12 kegs of beer I will start to believe ya dude!!!
Hypocrites!
The trip was very tiring though. It was three towns in three days, using both small planes and car trips to go around. We hung out until midnight, just because our hosts are "sungkan" (tried to please us), while my body and mind were screaming for us to get to bed already... and yes I am getting old...
The experience underlines again on how rich Indonesia is, if only someone wants to manage it right, with long-term perspectives. Currently, the area is rich because the government is selling land-use concessions for their own benefit so that big companies can build mining operations and destroy the environment.
Seriously, I was shocked to hear that even companies who claimed that they are "green" are burying their used tractor tires undereath the top soil...
When we asked, the reps said, it does nothing to the environment..
Yeah right... maybe after 12 kegs of beer I will start to believe ya dude!!!
Hypocrites!
# posted by indra : 1:44 PM
