【2019_Postgraduate_Individual Research (Design) Project】For many years, human practices have reshaped the land in Borneo Indonesia by introducing the exotic industrial crop, oil palm. In the course of cultivating oil palms, artificial interventions like canal-digging and fire-clearing have been taken as key processes, leading to an increased fragility and homogenization of the indigenous peat ecosystem. As the peat land of Indonesia contains a massive carbon stock, any damage also contributes to the escalation of climate change, threatening the inhabitation of humans and other beings. In response to the current intensification of local environmental transformation, an Indonesian Presidential Instruction alongside Instructive Moratorium Map (IMM) have been applied to protect the forest and environment; nevertheless, this has resulted in limited progress and environmental effectiveness due to problems in its enforcement, coverage and duration...
