orang asli mau kemana..?

ini adalah cerita tentang kehidupan suku asli di Mindanao, Phillipina. hutan di Phillipina, saat ini hanya tinggal sebagian kecil dari wilayah negaranya. Pola yang sama juga sedang terjadi di Indonesia. tahun 1980-an, Kalimantan dan Sumatera mengalami itu. Sebentar lagi Papua. mau seperti apa kita?

‘We once dwelled in valleys below;
Where streams and rivers used to flow.
Then loggers stripped the countryside,
Chain saws ripped, and the rivers died.
Next, lowland farmers claimed the land,
And we moved here to where we stand.
This mountainside was our last hope,
We clung to life upon its slope,
And asked the spirits living here
To let us grow some food each year.
We cleared a little patch of ground,
But then the rains began to pound.
The lightning cracked; the clouds exploded;
In rivers of mud our hope eroded.
The lashing rain dissolved the soil,
Wiping out our fruitless toil.
Our land, our life washed to the sea;
These dying hills, our legacy.’


Subanen indigenous women of
Western Mindaneo, the Philippines.