MMCKalteng- Suku Dayak sejak dulu sudah tunjukan eksistensi dalam dunia pers hal ini dibuktikan oleh salah seorang putra Dayak yang memulai langkahnya dengan mendirikan Majalah Soera Pakat.  Hausmann Baboe merupakan seorang perintis Pers di Kalimantan Tengah Ia telah berkecimpung dan menekuni dunia jurnalistik sejak tahun 1905 sehingga kemudian diikuti oleh angkatan muda termasuk para pemuda etnis Dayak selain juga dikenal sebagai seorang wartawan,  juga dikenal sebagai seorang tokoh pergerakan nasional yang memiliki peranan penting didunia Pers putera dari pasangan suami-isteri Joesoef Baboe-Soemboel Bahar termasuk yang disebut utus gantong (bangsawan/otokrasi) Tinggal di Lewu Sungei Pasah dan Hampatong Hausmann Baboe adalah cucu dari Tamanggung Ambo Nikodemos (Baca Juga : Pemprov Kalteng Gelar Advokasi Pengembangan DRPPA, Pencegahan Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan dan Anak serta TPPO) Hausmann juga  berteman akrab dengan tokoh nasional Sebagai seorang wartawan yang sangat aktif Hausmann Baboe juga melakukan profesi wartawan ini tanpa bersandar pada imbalan yang sekarang dikenal dengan sebutan honorarium Dengan demikian dapat dikatakan bahwa ia adalah perintis pers di Kalimantan pada umumnya dan Kalimantan Tengah secara lebih khusus Hausmann Baboe menjadi wartawan Harian Sinar Borneo Hausmann Baboe membantu Majalah Bulanan Barita Bahalap (BB) sejak tahun 1915 yang diterbitkan di Kuala Kurun awal tahun 1912 Majalah BB merupakan majalah pertama terbitan Kalimantan Tengah (di masa kekuasaan Belanda di Kalimantan yang disebut Afdeling Kapoeas-Barito) Hausmann Baboe pernah ditangkap oleh Keibitai (pasukan Polisi Militer Jepang) di Kuala Kapuas Ia disiksa secara kejam bersama-sama dengan para tawanan lainnya dokter Zending dan Kepala Rumah Sakit Umum Gereja Dayak Evangelis (RSU-GDE) Kuala Kapuas Hausmann Baboe bersama dengan 250 orang lainnya dibunuh oleh Keibitai Jepang dengan tuduhan melakukan subversi Atas dasar jasa-jasa Hausmann Baboe baik jasanya sebagai wartawan maupun sebagai penerbit surat kabar dan pendiri kantor berita pertama di negeri ini pihak PWI Kalimantan Selatan dan Kanwil Deppen Kalimantan Selatan pernah mengajukan usul kepada Pemerintah Pusat Republik Indonesia agar kepada Hausmann Baboe dan tokoh-tokoh pers Kalimantan Selatan seperti wartawan Kesuma Wiro Negoro Amir Hassan Bondan dan Mohamad Horman diberikan gelar Perintis Pers Kemerdekaan Villagers in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province occupied a local government office last week fed up with the government’s lack of action to resolve a long-running land dispute with palm oil company PT Rezeki Alam Semesta Raya Around 29 villagers occupied the Kuala Kapuas district head office in Central Kalimantan on Thursday Kalumpang and Pulau Kaladan villages demanded the company return nearly 3,000 hectares of customary land which they said was taken from them without their consent The occupation came after years of frustrated attempts by the villagers to negotiate with the company and the government for their lands to be returned Rezeki Alam Semesta Raya (RASR) began operating in Kuala Kapuas district in 2004 and residents of the four villages in Mantangai subdistrict have been demanding the return of their customary lands ever since – sending letters attending mediation meetings and holding demonstrations The company’s license was revoked in 2010 by the Kuala Kapuas district head the villagers told Mongabay-Indonesia last week and a letter by the Central Kalimantan governor on July 28 this year ordered them to halt all operations in the district linked to unresolved disputes despite these legal victories for the community the company has continued to operate in the area and has not yet returned any land to residents “Based on the decision in the letters [from the district head and the governor] the company has to stop operations and restore our rights to our customary land,” community action coordinator Porok C The villagers attended another mediation meeting on Wednesday last week one day before deciding to occupy the district head’s office the Kuala Kapuas District Legislative Council (DPRD) the district plantation agency and the district police chief all attended the meeting – but no representative of the company came “The mediation meeting was not encouraging “We’ve tried many times to hold mediation meetings and they only came one time to a meeting in the province last September.” Residents said they would not accept compensation from the company for their lost land and would not leave the office until their land was returned “If after three days we still don’t have an answer We will evict the company from our customary land,” Musradi said In a separate conflict in Mantangai subdistrict two villagers were reported to the police last month for pulling up oil palms planted by PT Usaha Handalan Perkasa (UPH) and replanting the area with rubber trees according to a video posted online by Save Our Borneo a Central Kalimantan-based environmental NGO were attempting to reclaim customary land that they say was taken from them without their consent Like the occupation of the district head office the action against UPH came after years of failed negotiations between the residents and the company The video showed the latest attempt at mediation which took place in the Mantangai subdistrict head office on Sept a resident tries to explain to a local government official that the company began its operations without carrying out the necessary “socialization” – the word commonly used for the consent process in Indonesia – with local residents a company representative told the villagers that they “didn’t need to know” about the licensing issues and that it was “a matter between our company with the government.” the community members decided not to join the mediation meeting which was meant to address just the charges against the two villagers for destroying the oil palms and not the broader land issues after subdistrict officials said only two representatives from the community could attend SOURCE: Lahan Adat Dicaplok Sawit, Puluhan Warga Mantangai Nginap di Kantor Bupati The “fortress conservation” model is under pressure in East Africa as protected areas become battlegrounds over history and global efforts to halt biodiversity loss Mongabay’s Special Issue goes beyond the region’s world-renowned safaris to examine how rural communities and governments are reckoning with conservation’s colonial origins and trying to forge a path forward […] Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker