Uneasy, to Save the Forest for 44 Years

By : Lutfi Pratomo Kota Waringin Timur – The morning had just broken, when long squeals of orangutans woke me up. It was sounding excitingly for me. I got up and walked out from the cabin trying to find where the long and highly pitched sound came from. It excited me even more as I found the noises came from somewhere inside the forest just a stone throw away from the cabin where I and Revalino, my teammate from COP, stayed for the night. A few meters away from the cabin, which is built by COP in 2008 as a camp for the local residents guarding their ten-thousand-hectare customary forest, I saw not only the Pongo Pygmaeus Wurmbis but also owas, a local name for Hylobates Agilis Albibarbis, jazzing up the atmosphere with their long pitched voices too during that peaceful morning.