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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE HAZE The development of haze in Kalimantan and Sumatera that spread out to Singapore and Malaysia is the haze of development. It caused by forest fire because of vulnerable nature as the results of massive logging concession, industrial tree plantation, and cash-crop plantation development projects. According to the head of West Kalimantan Office of Cash-crop Estate (Dinas Perkebunan) the total estate area that is on fire is 2,868.92 hectares. This is the only logic consequency of the western development paradigm.***
AN ALTERNATIVE VISION: SUSTAINABILITY We can no longer rely on development to create a world’s welfare society. Instead of development, we need sustainability. For indigenous peoples, sustainable means "resistance to development (Sachs, 1995). This means that for indigenous peoples, sustainable is zone free of development, both in the sense of physical reality and in the map of thinking.
TEN MISLEADING JUGDEMENT ABOUT PELADANG The most common term used in English for the indigenous farming system are "shifting cultivation", "swidden agriculture", or "slash and burn agriculture". Shifting cultivation is not an appropriate term since in the indigenous farming system, there is exactly no cultivation shift or farmer’s shift involved not even the shift of farming areas. Swidden agriculture is more degrading term while slash and burn agriculture over simplifies this farming system. By saying "slash and burn" one gets exactly the negative impression of irresponsible and out-of-date management of agriculture. 

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