A documentary short from RFA-affiliated news service BenarNews explores concepts of the “green economy” in Indonesia’s North Kalimantan province.
Through conversations with people living along the river, environmental activists, and project developers, “A River Out of Time” focuses on some of Indonesia’s latest and most ambitious development projects: its still-under-construction capital city, Nusantara; a sprawling “green” industrial zone; and a cascade of five dams planned along the Kayan River.
Indonesia’s central government is also forging ahead with plans to construct five dams along three rivers in North Kalimantan province as part of Southeast Asia’s largest hydropower project. Scheduled for completion in 2035, the cost of the cascade is estimated at more than $20 billion and could yield a generation capacity of 9,000 megawatts.
