Farwiza Farhan is the 30th Indonesian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s premier prize considered as the region’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize
For Indonesia n nature conservationist Farwiza Farhan, nature is a friend she can go to whenever life’s burdens become too much to bear. As a child, Farhan often climbed trees whenever she had problems, staying there until she calmed down.
When she was 12, she would constantly ask her father, then a member of the Indonesian parliament’s environment and energy committee, to protect the Borneo landscape. “Suddenly, what they were doing, the illegal thing that they were doing, was legal. So, we were furious. We were like, no way that they get the permit after conducting these illegal activities, and they get the permit in areas that are . So, we’re like, fine, take the company to court,” Farhan said.
The team also sent letters to Indonesia’s presidential office, prompting it to conduct an investigation that eventually lead to the office itself filing a lawsuit against PT Kallista Alam that resulted in the hefty $30-million fine. Farhan said they helped in the lawsuit by explaining to state prosecutors processes in nature work.
Farhan said that in environmental policymaking, it is important for organizations to remind the government which issues need to be addressed.
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