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Social media reporter for Global Landscapes Forum Jakarta (Credits: Global Landscapes Forum Flickr Page) I took a cup of coffee and brought it to the table in which I placed the laptop. Walking through rows of tables, tried to remember the faces, groping if they were students like me.  Jakarta seem to be always busy, even inside the buildings; everyone in the room was staring at their laptop screen in Rapha Room 2, JS Luwansa Hotel and Convention Center. Fixing the position of his glasses, Peter Casier greeted us. Peter Casier, an online media consultant, who has traveled to 150 countries, provided social media training to social media reporter of Global Landscapes Forum that morning.  Social media, so close to the daily life of people in millennium era. You can ask everyone in your housing complex and found that no one has never activated a social media account. However, the closer we are to the virtual world does not mean we are getting closer to be “futuri...

I came to speak for mypeople. (Credits: Global Landscapes Forum Flickr Page) “We are fighting for our land in our homeland”, Emmanuela Shinta approached the front line of the stage proudly in Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), Jakarta, May 18 th 2017. Shinta brought along the stories in her journey to Jakarta; all the way from the western part of Borneo to the busiest business district of Java. Shinta came from the most exotic tribe in Indonesia, The Dayak Tribe. Wrapped beautifully in her traditional clothes, she drew the attention of media and the world to the life of Dayak’s indigenous people through RANU WELUM Foundation. RANU WELUM is meant “Air Kehidupan” in Bahasa or “The water of life” in English. Despite of its meaning, the “living water” had to fight with the fire since 2014. Peatlands had always been an identity and culture of indigenous people of Borneo, especially Dayak. According to CIFOR, in 2012, Borneo has 5.7 million hectares of peatlands which i...