Orangutan

Navicula's "Orangutan" is written from the perspective of a young orangutan whose parents are killed by palm oil workers, who is kidnapped to the city, and who eventually turns on her captors. It is not an easy song. It is not meant to be.

In this episode, Bustar Maitar — formerly Greenpeace's Southeast Asia forest campaign lead, now CEO of EcoNusa — walks through the economics and politics of deforestation on Sumatra and Kalimantan. Leif Cocks of The Orangutan Project and the Borneo Nature Foundation team describe what species loss looks like up close, and what still-standing forest there is to defend. The band shares what they saw firsthand on a Greenpeace tour of Kalimantan.

Guests

• Bustar Maitar
  CEO, EcoNusa Foundation · Former Forest Campaign Team Leader, Greenpeace Southeast Asia
• Leif Cocks
  Author · Founder, The Orangutan Project
• Juliarta Ottay
  Board Chairperson, Borneo Nature Foundation
• Suzi Turnock
  Global Outreach Director, Borneo Nature Foundation
• Dadang "Dankie" Pranoto
  Guitarist, Navicula
• Gembull Rai
  Former drummer of Navicula

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