Rut Dini - Photo by David Metcalf
Dini is a passionate defender of the rivers of Borneo, which is not surprising, because their memories in a small village on the Kahayan river in Central Kalimantan grow to very happy. She remembers with fondness, days out with her father in his small canoe on the pristine rivers with dense forests come down fish to the shore, not far from what is now the bustling city of Palangkaraya.
Dini told me: "we often see orangutans in the trees and were very careful with which they used as they were staunch defenders of their territory, but we have managed to respect each other and then there was a lot of pristine forest for the people in my village and the wild primates of the forest to share "
Dini was born in 1988 in a small village in Muara Teweh district and their parents are Dayaks. her father is Dayak Ma'anyan and mother is from the Dayak tribe Lamandau. Dini lives in Palangkaraya but misses those days in the village, surrounded by the family, the community and the daily traditional activities and opportunities of the Dayak people in the region.
Her parents sacrificed everything to ensure Dini had a good education and her mother instilled a good attitude to learning in Dini. She always had the desire to make humanitarian and work environment issues, but end up going to the University a degree in agriculture science. During this time she taught himself English by 70 words per day to learn and interact as much as they could to be competent with strangers in the language.
to concentrate After in 2013 with her agronomy degree graduation, she began a working local NGO called Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta, on the issue of mercury contamination in the area of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Central Kalimantan and West Nusa Tenggara , She works the alternative technologies to the provision and eliminate increasing public awareness and / or reduce the use of mercury as a source of pollution. Mercury is very harmful to the environment and harmful to human health due to bioaccumulation in the food chain.
Rut Dini is to save very passionate about the rivers and forests of their homeland. "I can not believe how fast the rivers are polluted and disappeared the forests in the area, where I grew up. There were no palm oil plantations and the rivers were clean and there were plenty of fish species. Now the rivers from the run-off are polluted by pesticides and chemical fertilizers from palm oil plantations. Even mercury poisoning is to be a big problem in the future. It is so important that young Dayak are educated and in the struggle to come to our forests and rivers or our children save is a desert . inherit But we can not do it alone, we need help from the outside and a collaboration of expertise is required. I have learned that there are many alternatives to this destructive methods, and I am determined to dedicate my life to this cause . "
This strong-minded 25-year-old plans to earn a scholarship to travel to Australia and gain a Master of Environment degree they are working in their quest to create with NGOs and local governments, viable solutions to the current destructive helping practices. I have no doubt they will be successful, as this gentle young woman Dayak spoken provides a steely determination and will to succeed and the rivers of Central Kalimantan have an ally.
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