Abstract:
Its difficult to argue that the Province of West Kalimantan (WK) is one of the areas that exist in
producing smoke in the event of drought. Combustion is not only done on the farm, but also in
residential areas. Environmental clean-up activities done by the people in the dry season, is always
followed by combustion activities, ranging from household waste burn to grass or bush burn. Thus
simultanously, make smoke become a problem not only for the people of West Kalimantan, but also for
people in neighboring countries. But then, the plantation and forestry sector is considered as the main
culprit of the onset of the smoke and be prolonged paradox.
Not only WK who became industrial smoke in the Southeast Asian region. There are still as many as 13
provinces were equally strong existence with WKr in producing smoke. There are NAD, North Sumatra,
West Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung, Jambi, South Sumatra, Bengkulu, Lampung, South
Kalimantan, East Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan.
Existence smog, was not only due to the absence of local regulations on the prohibition of burning, but
also not touching the interests of farmers in developing palm oil that owned by the people. When the
government issued prohibit burn policy, the industrial estates will obey that regulation, but not for the
people. When the local regulation is not accommodating the interests of farmers, the burning activity is
become a smart choice to reduce the production costs and this phenomenon will be occurs along time
and never be ending.
In the local level, it turns out there are people who do not apply the fires in their plantation activities.
There is a custom concept successfully applied on an ongoing basis into the plantation business by a
local group in West Kalimantan. Apparently, it could be put as the good practices of local communities,
can be developed to initiate Indonesia without smog in the next drought.
