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Una producción de COCKROACH FILMS & GEKKO STUDIO Para FILMS4CONSERVATION www.films4.org/forests CORTES DEL DIRECTOR PRODUCIDO POR: NICK LYON, EVANIA WRIGHT Y RIDSKI SIGGIT Orang Rimba es un pueblo nómada que vive en la selva. Son grupos pequeños que viven en las selvas de Sumatra, Indonesia. Desde la llegada de los proyectos de transmigración del Presidente Suharto a mediados de los 80, la deforestación en la Provincia de Jambi se acentuó masivamente. Enormes plantaciones de aceite de palma siguen reemplazando al bosque natural. El proceso de esta producción cinematográfica intentó hacer posible un foro neutral de conversación entre los geográficamente aislados Orang Rimba y los ejecutivos de la compañía de aceite de palma que están a cargo de esta industria desde sus oficinas en Yakarta, la capital de Indonesia.

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Please Visit the project page @ www.films4.org/forests Orang Rimba: Happiness Lies in the Forest A Cockroach Films & Gekko Studio Production for Films4Conservation Transcript excerpt: ...The Orang Rimba are a nomadic forest people, small groups of whom still live in the jungles of Sumatra, Indonesia. Since the advent of President Suharto’s transmigration schemes in the mid-1980s, deforestation in Jambi Province has accelerated massively. Vast oil palm plantations continue to replace natural forest. The filmmaking process attempted to enable a neutral forum for conversation between the geographically isolated Orang Rimba and the palm oil company executives in charge of running this industry from their offices in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. OPENING Mangku Basemen: The palm oil companies cleared the forest, thousands of hectares from each group. There have been no benefits for the Orang Rimba. Tumenggung Tarib: Our forest is gone. It’s already been made into oil palm plantations. The whole of the Black Water area is our ancestral land. The Dragonblood Land, the Forbidden Forest, the special land for childbirth… …It has already been destroyed. Tumenggung Majid: We’re now sitting in a plantation. When they arrived, they started to clear the forest in order to establish the plantation. They completely ignored our customary laws and cut down all our culturally significant trees. The ‘birth trees’ and the ‘life trees’. They cut down the sialang tree [where the honeybees nested], all the Durian and Duku [fruit trees]. When they began clearing the forest in this area, they cut all those trees down. ... Mangku Basemen: ... Every aspect of Orang Rimba life is tied to the forest. All our culture…how we find our food…all the wealth that we have. That is why I am happy to be Rimba. When I see my forest being destroyed it makes me weep. ... To keep reading - please visit www.films4.org/forests

A COCKROACH FILMS & GEKKO STUDIO PRODUCTION for FILMS4CONSERVATION www.films4.org/forests Gli Orang Rimba sono un popolo nomade che vive nelle foreste, del quale piccoli gruppi vivono ancora nelle giungle di Sumatra, Indonesia. Dai tempi dei progetti di migrazione del Presidente Suharto, della metà degli anni 80, la deforestazione nella Jambi Province è diventata sempre più veloce. Vaste piantagioni di palma da olio continuano a sostituire la foresta naturale. Lo svolgimento del documentario ha tentato di costruire neutralmente un dialogo tra le isolate tribù di Orang Rimba e i dirigenti delle compagnie di palma da olio, che dirigono le attività di deforestazione dagli uffici della capitale Giacarta.

Part of the Films4Forest Project http://www.films4.org/forests A Social and Environmental Justice Film Project Unedited Oral Testimonies from the Orang Rimba Forest Nomads.

Part of the Films4Forest Project http://www.films4.org/forests A Social and Environmental Justice Film Project Unedited Oral Testimonies from the Orang Rimba Forest Nomads.