Community firefighters tackle forest fire from grassroots

The dawn still sheltered beneath the tropical forest-lined horizon in Kalimantan, as 24-year-old Maryadi Dayak Sanjaya yanked the throttle on a motorized canoe, angling its prow toward furtive trails of smoke that threatened to gather in the distance.

In the previous four months, Sanjaya had gone from being a fresh graduate from the University of Palangkaraya to coordinating the nascent fire prevention and suppression program within the Katingan Project, an effort to conserve one of the largest intact peat swamp forests remaining in Indonesia. - See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/11/10/community-firefighters-tackle-forest-fire-grassroots.html#sthash.FuYZZiHq.dpuf

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