Rut Dini - photo by David Metcalf
Dini is a strong advocate of the rivers of Borneo, which is surprising because his memories of growing up in a small village on the Kahayan River in Central Kalimantan are very happy. She remembers fondly, days fishing with his father in his small canoe on the pristine rivers with dense forest areas leading down to the river, not far from what is now the bustling city of Palangkaraya.
Dini told me, "We often used to see orangutans in the trees and were very wary of them because they were ardent defenders of their territory, but we managed to meet and the other at the time there were a lot of virgin forest for the people in my village and wild primates of the forest to share "
Dini was born in 1988 in a small village in the district of Muara Teweh and both parents are Dayaks. Dayak Ma'anyan his father and mother of the tribe Dayak Lamandau. Dini now lives in Palangkaraya but lacking these days in the village surrounded by family, community and traditional activities and resources of the Dayak people of the area daily.
Her parents sacrificed everything to ensure Dini had a good education and his mother instilled in Dini a good attitude to learning. She always had a desire to work on humanitarian and environmental issues, but ended up going to college to get a degree in agricultural sciences. Meanwhile, she taught English by learning 70 words a day and interact with strangers as she could to become proficient in the language.
After graduating in Agricultural Science in 2013, she started working for a local NGO called Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta, focusing on the issue of mercury pollution in the field of mining artisanal and small-scale gold in central Kalimantan and West Nusa Tenggara. She works on the provision of alternative technologies and public awareness to eliminate and / or reduce the use of mercury as an environmental pollution source. Mercury is highly polluting and dangerous to human health due to bioaccumulation in the food chain.
Rut Dini is very passionate about saving the rivers and forests of his native country. "I can not believe how fast the rivers have become polluted and the forests have disappeared in the area where I grew up. At the time, there were no palm oil plantations and rivers were clean and there were many fish species. Now the rivers are polluted runoff of pesticides and fertilizers from palm oil plantations. in addition, mercury poisoning will be a big problem to the future. It is so important that young people become educated Dayak and join the fight to save our forests and our rivers and our children will inherit a wasteland. But we can not do it alone, we need help from outside expertise and collaboration is needed. I learned there are many alternatives to these destructive methods and I am determined to dedicate my life to this cause. "
this strong d spirit of 25 years plans to earn a scholarship, trip to Australia and gain a master's degree environment to help him in his quest to work with NGOs and local governments to provide sustainable solutions to current destructive practices. I have no doubt she will be successful because it gently spoken young Dayak woman has a steely determination and the will to succeed and rivers of Central Kalimantan have an ally.
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