Kinipan

Katanya, rentang perhatian alias attention span manusia semakin singkat. Orang cuma bisa tahan nonton sekian detik, makanya story Instagram cuma 15 detik.

Tunggu, kenapa orang juga bisa tahan nonton serial berjam-jam? Rupanya attention span yang menciut itu mitos belaka. Yang penting: satu menit pertama musti memukau.

Akhirnya, Watchdoc merilis film dokumenter Kinipan lewat kanal YouTube, yang durasinya dua setengah jam. Satu menit pertama, kita langsung dihadapkan ke inti film—perusakan lingkungan.

Empat menit awal film, bagian “lead” berakhir. Judul muncul. Dua setengah jam lalu berakhir.

Kinipan ternyata bukan cuma soal sebuah desa di Kalimantan yang menghadapi perusahaan perusak hutan. Tokoh utamanya dua orang: Basuki dan Feri.

Ada 7 bab yang menggambarkan perjuangan pelestarian alam melalui perspektif dua orang ini. Di awal, penokohan mereka terasa dekat.

Kita pun bisa menaruh simpati dan kepercayaan. Sehingga, ketika mereka turut menganalisa, terasa sahih.

Basuki memusatkan perjuangan di pulau Kalimantan, sementara Feri di Sumatera. Keduanya bakal ketemu di bagian akhir.

Di antara pertemuan itu, mereka mengungkap bahwa eksploitasi alam, pandemi, kuasa negara, semua berkaitan. Ada beberapa informasi lama, ada pula yang baru.

Misalnya, soal konflik kepentingan antara pemuka negara dan pengusaha yang pernah didalami film dokumenter Sexy Killer. Tentang kegagalan proyek sawah di Kalimantan yang diulas Asimetris.

Yang baru saya dapat dalam film ini: beda persepsi soal restorasi hutan dari mata korporasi dan masyarakat adat. Kamu akan temukan detil kisah ini di sekitar 45 menit terakhir film, lengkap dengan “cover both side” yang sempat diributkan netizen ketika Sexy Killer tayang dua tahun lalu.

Pada akhirnya, ada nada pesimisme dalam narasi bahwa “negara tidak mungkin mengembalikan hak pengelolaan hutan ke masyarakat adat”. Tapi toh perjuangan warga di sekitar hutan menolak padam.

Meski, narasi di bagian akhir Kinipan menuturkan nada getir:

“Kini semuanya telah terhubung/

Peradaban dan gaya hidup kita/

Menuntut pengorbanan besar dari alam//

Yang merasakan dampaknya/

Tak hanya manusia//

Sebab manusia/ jelas bukan

Satu-satunya yang butuh hidup//

Dan harga yang harus dibayar manusia/

Kadang lebih besar

Dari keuntungan yang didapat//

Apalagi/ jika yang membayar

Bukan mereka yang paling

Menikmati kue ekonomi//

Bahkan jika tragedi itu

Menjangkau sampai

pusat-pusat ekonomi dan pusat populasi/

Korban yang ditimbulkan akan semakin besar//

Lalu/ dengan dalih untuk mencari solusi

Untuk semua masalah ini/

Sekelompok manusia yang berkuasa/

Membuat kebijakan yang justru/

Berpotensi memperburuk keadaan di masa depan/

Yakni kembali menuntut pengorbanan

Alam dan seisinya//

Lalu lingkaran masalah yang sama

Akan terulang di masa yang akan datang//

Bahkan jika keputusan itu/

Murni untuk kepentingan bersama/

Dan tanpa konflik kepentingan sedikit pun//

Di sisi lain/ untuk memperbaiki lingkungan/

Justru tak melibatkan mereka

Yang paling berkepentingan//

Pelestarian hutan/ diserahkan kepada

Mereka yang hidupnya tidak tergantung

Secara langsung pada hutan//

Sementara yang terdekat/

Justru hanya menonton//

Menonton bagaimana dulu hutan dirusak/

Dan kini/ menonton bagaimana/

Konon hutan akan dipulihkan/

Lewat berbagai proyek yang tak mereka pahami//

Padahal/ justru dari bangku penonton inilah/

Pertunjukan keserasian antara alam dan kebutuhan hidup/

Telah dipentaskan selama ribuan tahun//“

Saya tiba-tiba kepikir lagu Iwan Fals untuk anaknya, Galang Rambu Anarki. Cuma liriknya diubah jadi begini: “tinjulah congkaknya negara buah hatiku, doa kami di nadimu”. []

Fight

Last Thursday night I went to the ruin of taman sari, Bandung. It lies under pasupati bridge. Previously, there was a housing estate. Long story short, conflict arouses between the villagers and local government. The dispute was made their house have to be demolished. And here I am, stand on the ground that seems like it has been existed as a living room. With graffiti painted on the standing-still walls.

Ridho

Someone drop me a comment, right after I shot a photo of graffiti written “tanah kita tidak dijual”. He offer me that he could took me a photograph. I spontaneously said no—as I am not accustomed to be a photo model. Haha. Some kind of guilty feeling struck down on me. I change my mind. I said, “I guess it would be nice if I stand next to the graffiti”. Then he stood up and grab my phone. He took three different angle right before I did the same. We continued to have a chat.

His name is Ridho, IT student from Palu. He said his family is being okay, after I asked about the tsunami disaster in September last year. Ridho came by his own—same as me. That night was not his first visit to taman sari. Previously, he came to give some support to the resident who fought for their home. He seems to know a lot about the house-demolition case. He said, the latest judicial verdict confirmed that the lot is under the status quo condition. This means, whoever could proof that they are the owner of the place, could live on it. “Even the proof is only a photograph (not a legal sertificate)?” I asked. He said he’s not sure about it.

Film

Ridho and I came to taman sari to watch a movie called Sexy Killers. It was a documentary film made by production house named Watchdoc. Two of their team, Dandhy and Ucok, traveled around Indonesia four years ago. They were back with several documentary titles tells about Blue Economy Concept. It was the opposite of Green Economy Concept that produce and consume economic commodity in a massive and identical way, although the characteristic in each and every place is different. That’s why the expedition called Ekspedisi Indonesia Biru. They made a documentary series about several problems and solutions to each and every unique culture, based on the indigenous inventions.

In this last episode, they spoke about coal, and how it create martyrs for electricity industry. Dandhy and Ucok served story from coal mining in Kalimantan to steam electric generator (PLTU) in West Java, Central Java, Bali, and Central Sulawesi. Those two different type of places, victimized powerless people. A mother became the victim of irresponsible coal mining. Her son got drown in an unreclaimed coal mining area. One father got his home slowly broken due to coal mining activity, next to his rice-producing village. Meanwhile in PLTU area, there was a husband whose his wife suffer for a lung cancer as she exposed to dust particle from electricity factory nearby. There was also a farmer whose his coconut trees were getting withered. Who’s got credit for it? The oligarks in front and behind president candidacy.

The Battle

I remember to the patch that I has just bought in that movie screening event. It was the silhouette of Munir’s face. He fought for legal action to the perpetrators of Orde Baru repression. At the end of his life, Munir was killed. In front of me, on the giant screen shown Sexy Killers in its ending part, there was Surayah. His family insisted to live nearby PLTU though they’ve got the risk as if being stay: an asthma. Munir and Surayah were fought and face the consequences. Then what kind of fight that i could join to recover the bad energy production system? I guess, it is to be a nonvoter. []