2017 | Singapore | Documentary

Orang Rimba: People of the Forest

  • 14 mins
  • Director | Isaac Kerlow
  • Producer | Isaac Kerlow
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The ancestral forests of the nomadic Orang Rimba have vanished. In the short span of three decades, oil palm plantations have replaced much of the tropical peatland rain forests in Jambi, Indonesia. The People of the Forest, Orang Rimba in their dialect, have nowhere to go.

environment ethnography conservation rainforest economics oil palm
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