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...married at 15 to a 13-year-old girl, he still has a boyish face and a loose-limbed manner. He was born and raised on Madura but, unemployed, unmoved by the prospect of spending his life in the tobacco fields, he left for Sampit in Borneo several years ago and found work as a driver. Last February, long simmering tensions between the Madurese and the native Dayaks erupted. The Dayaks, in hand-to-hand, town-to-town combat, embarked on a rampage intent on exterminating all things Madurese. The killings began on a Sunday, Ma'ruf remembers. Houses were...
...lanky Van Schaik recounts, "the loggers said, yes, there are a few crooked trees left that they had missed. And when we found them, we saw that there were some fruits scattered around where the orangutans had dropped them with just one small piece broken off like in Borneo, the rest untouched, and I realized that these monkeys, just across the river from my orangutans, didn't get it. That was when I knew we had really discovered the beginnings of culture...
...traveled to Washington with "a letter of authorization from the Indonesian government in my hand to set up a debt-for-nature swap," whereby a portion of Indonesia's foreign debt would be paid off in return for the creation of a huge protected area in central Borneo of some 700,000 hectares. Considering the utter chaos in Jakarta, it is, at the very least, a highly optimistic plan...
...Birute Galdikas is also trying to protect a larger area of forest in central Borneo, the much-abused Tanjung Puting National Park, the area she has been using for her research since the 1970s. In the past, Galdikas has often exploited her considerable fame to lobby Presidents and Prime Ministers. But with the collapse of authority in Jakarta, her focus has narrowed down to the communities living in and around what is left of the national park. They are both the source and solution to the problem. "These days it is impossible to distinguish the local community from illegal loggers...
...subadolescent orangutans chases one another around a large cage, one of a series of such enclosures in which the 200 or so orangutans inhabiting this rehabilitation center live for five years as they are prepared for release into the wild. There are two other such programs releasing apes into Borneo's dwindling forests...