Near-annual landscape-scale fires in Indonesia's peatlands have caused severe air pollution, economic losses, and health impacts for millions of Southeast Asia residents. While the extent of fires across the peatland surface has been widely attributed to widespread peatland drainage for plantation agriculture, fires that transition from surface into sub-surface soil-based fires are the source of the most dangerous air pollution. Yet the mechanisms by which this transition occurs have rarely been considered, particularly in diversely managed landscapes. Integrating physical geography methods, including active fire scene evaluations and hydrological monitoring, with qualitative methods such as retrospective fire scene evaluations and semi-structured interviews, this article discusses how and why sub-surface peat fire transition occurs in an intensively altered peatland ecosystem in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. We demonstrate that variable water table levels and flammable surface vegetation (fire fuels) are co-produced socio-political and biophysical phenomena that enable the conditions in which surface fire is likely to transition into peat fire and increase landscape vulnerability to ongoing, uncontrollable annual fires. This localized understanding of peat fire transition counters normative causal narratives of tropical fire such as 'slashand-burn', with implications for the management of new fire regimes in inhabited landscapes.
Since the decentralization era that started in 1999, the need to search for local identity in various regions in Indonesia gradually emerged. Local elites have been pursuing some specific characteristics to legitimize their indigeneity and authenticity which are useful to strengthen their local power grip. The production of local identity (e.g., adat; tradition) was transformed into a key factor for the success of a local government in the transition of political and economic power in Indonesia (Bourchier, 2007; Erb, 2007). In that cultural production, a particular ethnic tradition was often fabricated into a binary dichotomy; “good” and “bad” to come up with a “true local identity.” Within this scheme, a tradition considered “bad” is rejected. Baram, a traditional Dayak beverage containing alcohol, faces this kind of rejection. Even though it is inherently a part of the Dayak culture, evidence of its existence is systematically deleted in the public domain such as museums, books, and public documents and other local publications. Baram is perceived as a form of bad habit and also is thought to be irrelevant to the contemporary Dayak identity that is struggling to eliminate the stereotype of being uncivilized. This paper argues that the marginalization of baram not only is a matter of politics but also is related to current social and cultural contestation in Central Kalimantan, Palangkaraya in particular. The analysis in this paper focuses on the relation of the Dayak as indigenous people of Central Kalimantan and migrants from other Kalimantan regions and outside of Kalimantan. The data were collected during my short ethnographic research in Palangkaraya and Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan in 2015. Baram is suspected of being a source of overconsumption of alcohol that triggers violence and criminal actions in both urban and rural communities. Such a formulation is common in the mass media to describe the negative effects of baram. The marginalization of baram continues and has escalated into a more serious matter as the local regime now labels it as illegal good. It is, thus, alienated in its own home.
Desa Sinar Petir kaya akan hasil alam, mayoritas masyarakatnya bekerja sebagai petani. Hasil alam tersebut banyak dimanfaatkan menjadi produk yang bernilai ekonomis. Seperti kunyit dapat dijadikan bubuk kunyit alami, cake kunyit, keripik paruh daun singkong, nata de aloe vera. Kelompok Wanita Tani desa Sinar Petir merupakan kelompok yang mengelola permasalahan pertanian di desa Sinar Petir. Kelompok usaha ini merupakan mitra kegiatan pengabdian yang memiliki beberapa permasalahan tata kelola manajerial, antara lain: 1) pemasaran produk masih sangat sederhana belum merambah masyarakat luar daerah, 2) pengemasan produk yang kurang menarik belum tertera label merk dagang, 3) pemasaran belum memanfaatkan teknologi informasi sehingga produk hanya dapat dipasarkan di kecamatan setempat. Tujuan kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini untuk meningkatkan kemampuan manajerial dan pemasaran pada kelompok wanita tani di desa sinar petir kecamatan talang padang, kabupaten tanggamus. Tujuan tersebut dicapai melalui pendampingan Kelompok Wanita Tani dibidang pembukuan/pengelolaan keuangan serta strategi marketing berbasis online (Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram). Kelompok wanita tani ini bergerak dalam bidang pembuatan keripik paruh daun singkong, dan nata de aloevera. Pembuatan produk makanan lokal ini memberdayakan ibu-ibu rumah tangga di daerah sekitar yang ingin menambah pengetahuan dan penghasilan ibu-ibu anggota kelompok usaha tersebut. Pelatihan pemasaran online berbasis internet dilakukan dengan memberikan wawasan untuk memaksimalkan teknologi yang ada untuk memasarkan produk desa tersebut. Metode yang dipakai menggunakan penyuluhan dan pendampingan hingga kelompok wanita tani memiliki pembukuan yang rapih dan memiliki toko online di media sosial.Hasil kegiatan membawa implikasi peningkatan pengetahuan dan keterampilan Kelompok Wanita Tani dalam mengembangkan elektronik marketing, serta meningkatkan kemampuan memasarkan secara online.
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