Alaa Angku Nurhasni, memang ruponyo ado kaba gadang tasuruak nan
bahubuganan jo Tanjuang Balik, Tanajuang Pauah jo Koto Panjang ko. Sabagai
pambukak kaji caliak lah di bawah ado ampek artikel nan MakNgah singkokan
dicukia di sumber dunia maya ko.
Tampaknayo iyo agak bagaleak pasoalannyo. Dam tu ado di Koto Panjang, tapi
bialah Tanjuang Balik ko kito jadikan topik rancak untuak manyuruak jan
tabaun dari search engines.
Salam,
--MakNgah
>Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mohon bantuan; Nagari Tanjuang Balik; Barang tasuruak di
>bawahnyo...
> Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:51 am
>nurhasni abdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Assalamualaikum wr.wb.
>
>Ondeh Mak Ngah, tabukak banyak informasi mengenai Tanjaung Balik. sabananya
>makasuik ambo menanyokan daerah tanjuang balik hanyo karano berkaitan
>dengan DAM
>yang ado disitu nan biayanyo dipinjam dari pemerintah jepang. Nan saat ini
>katonyo ado "masalah" dgn masyarakat setempat. Ambo masih kabua masalaha
>tersebut, hanyo sajo kawan samo2 dijapang bacarito kalau ado masalah tajadi
>disinan. Ambo dangga masyarakat tidak puas dgn ganti rugi nan ditarimo. (maaf
>masalah iko bagi ambo juga belum terlalu jelas)
>
>Ambo sangat salut dgn Mak Angah nan banyak mempunyai pengalaman dan wawasan
>luas. Kalau sakironyo dgn topic tanjuang balik tarnyato banyak manyimpan
>sasuatu
>nan baharago, patuiklah, dusanank nan tau dan ahli dibidang iko mampajaleh apo
>bana ado barang nan baharago disitu.
>Ambo samato hanyo macari info latak tanjuang balik, ternyato tabuka kaji baru.
>Mungkin Mak Angah dan dusanak lain nan banyak tau. Kalau tarnyato bana adonyo,
>semoga kekayaan negeri kto dapat membawa manfaat buat masyarakat kito
>hendaknya amin.
>
>Wassalam
>
>Hasni
>(Yokohama-Jepang)
>
>Sjamsir Sjarif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Kalau baitu, memang Tanjuang Balik nan ciek lai tu nan Angku Nurhasni
>mukasuik. Lataknyo sasudah Pangkalan dakek Tanjuang Pauah, lah dakek Muaro
>Mahek.
Silakan caliak ampek artikel di bawah ko sabagai panambah pambuloacikan
mato awak:
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Publication Date: 15-JUL-02
Japan asks Indonesia to compensate villagers affected by dam.
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JAKARTA, July 9 Kyodo
Japan in an unexpected move has asked the Indonesian government to
compensate villagers on Sumatra Island forcibly resettled from their land
to make way for a Tokyo-funded hydropower dam, diplomatic sources said
Tuesday.
Japan takes issue with Indonesia's failure to fulfill pledges to provide
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Sudah tu caliak lo artickel ko:
More Indonesians to sue Japan over aid-funded dam
Source: Copyright 2003, Reuters
Date: March 27, 2003
TOKYO - More than 4,000 Indonesians will join a lawsuit against the
Japanese government, demanding compensation for a dam funded by aid from
Tokyo and which they say has destroyed their livelihood, supporters said
yesterday.
The original suit, the first ever against a project funded by Japan's
official development assistance (ODA), was filed last year in the Tokyo
District Court by 3,861 Indonesians who said they were forcibly resettled
to make way for the Kotopanjang Dam in Sumatra.
Around 4,600 more people will join the suit on Friday, said Atsushi Saito,
with a group supporting the plaintiffs.
Like the plaintiffs before them, they will demand five million yen
($41,650) each in compensation from the Japanese government and its foreign
assistance body, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, for damage to
their lifestyle, including a lack of fresh water and jobs in the area where
they were resettled.
"There's no water where they live, it takes four hours a day to get water,"
Saito said. "Children can't go to school.
"The compensation is a secondary demand. What they really want is to return
to the lives they had before, perhaps by dismantling the dam."
A lawyer for the plaintiffs declined to comment, saying that details were
still being worked out.
Also named in the original suit were the Japan Bank for International
Cooperation (JBIC), a semi-governmental bank that provides loans to foreign
countries and overseas projects, and Tokyo Electric Power Services Co, an
affiliate of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), Japan's largest utility.
The hydroelectric dam, completed in 1997, was built in Sumatra at a cost of
some 31 billion yen.
Plaintiffs say it has damaged the natural environment and that wild animals
in the area, including elephants, face starvation, Kyodo news agency said.
"The environmental damage has been huge," Saito said.
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official declined to comment on the suit.
Sumber http://www.waterconserve.info/articles/reader.asp?linkid=21245
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COPYRIGHT: Japan Economic Newswire, March 25, 2003
SECTION: International News
LENGTH: 457 words
HEADLINE: 3,900 more Sumatra residents to join suit over ODA-funded dam
BYLINE: Keiji Hirano
DATELINE: Tokyo
Some 3,900 residents of Indonesia's Sumatra Island will join a lawsuit at
the Tokyo District Court on Friday under which another 3,900 of their
neighbors have questioned the legitimacy of Japanese foreign aid, their
lawyer said Tuesday.
The plaintiffs argue that some 20,000 local residents were forcibly
resettled to areas without proper living facilities and job opportunities
when the hydroelectric Kotopanjang Dam, funded with Japan's official
development assistance (ODA), was completed in 1996.
The initial group filed the first-ever lawsuit over the use of ODA last
September to seek a total of some 19.3 billion yen in compensation, or 5
million yen each, from the Japanese government, the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA), the state-run Japan Bank for International
Cooperation, and Tokyo Electric Power Services Co.
The planned participation of the second group of residents will bring the
total amount of compensation demand to some 39 billion yen, said Akihiko
Oguchi, Tokyo lawyer representing the plaintiffs.
JICA is the foreign assistance body of the Japanese government while Tokyo
Electric Power Services is an affiliate of Tokyo Electric Power Co.
The plaintiffs said the dam, located in the middle of the island on the
border between Riau and West Sumatra provinces, has damaged not only their
lives and culture but also the natural environment of the area, with
elephants, tigers and other rare animals facing starvation.
Oguchi said the animals will also be included in the suit as part of the
plaintiffs' group.
'We consider the group of an unspecified number of animals as one plaintiff
seeking 5 million yen, which should be used to recover the damaged natural
environment,' he said.
The local residents have been supported by Japanese lawyers, scholars and
citizen activists in filing the suit.
The supporters said Japanese ODA-funded development projects are
increasingly seen as inefficient in improving the living conditions of
residents of recipient countries, while only Japanese consulting firms and
construction companies involved in them benefit.
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Sumatran Villagers Sue Japan Over ODA Dam
by Amanda Suutari
August 14, 2003
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Before Tanjung Pau village disappeared under the reservoir of Kotopanjang
Dam, the ethnic Minangkabau who lived in that remote corner of central
Sumatra, Indonesia, once held an elaborate ceremony for 2-month-old babies.
"It was called Turun Mandi," villager Iswadi Abdulla Salim explains.
"Everyone would come to see the family bathe the baby in the Mahat River.
This was supposed to give protection and allowed the baby to be brought
into public for the first time."
Today the village -- and river ceremonies like this -- are gone, flooded
six years ago by a dam project funded with Official Development Assistance
from Japan. Now, though, the villagers are fighting back. Last September,
in the first legal challenge to Japanese ODA, some 3,861 displaced
residents filed a lawsuit with Tokyo District Court against the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC), Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Tokyo Electric Power Services
Corporation (TEPSCO). Claiming that the $251 million project forcibly
displaced about 20,000 people and devastated their subsistence economy,
culture and environment, the plaintiffs -- who now number some 8,400 -- are
demanding 5 million yen each in damages, the removal of the dam and
restoration of the ecosystem.
While the lawsuit itself is unprecedented, Japanese ODA has long been a
target for criticism. With projects favoring costly infrastructure that
yields contracts for Japanese companies, nongovernmental organizations
monitoring Japanese activities abroad have blasted it as little more than a
guise for Japanese businesses to enter emerging Asian markets --
particularly in the field of hydropower.
Joan Carling of the NGO network Rivers Watch East and Southeast Asia,
explains: "Since opposition to more dams in Japan is ever-increasing,
dam-building companies must look for other markets outside Japan to sustain
their operations and profitability."
Kotopanjang Dam flooded a 120-sq.-km area of the Minangkabau's fields,
forests and villages in the provinces of Riau and Western Sumatra. This
indigenous group had lived for generations along the fertile basins of the
Mahat and Kampar Kanan rivers, fishing and growing fruit and rice for
subsistence and harvesting rubber.
However, even though they were evicted from their villages to make way for
the dam in the early 1990s, they claim that no one consulted them about the
project, relocation or compensation.
Asseem of Koto Tuo village charges that local government officials and the
military harassed and intimidated villagers into accepting the plan. "We
were having a meeting at my house when military and local government
officials came and surrounded us," he says. "When I went outside and asked
them what they were doing, the head of the military threatened to arrest me."
The next day, Asseem says he was invited to the local government office,
where he was offered 30 million rupiah (around $3,500) to abandon his
opposition to the project. While the Indonesian government prepared new
villages and cash settlements, villagers contend that the money they were
offered was inadequate, and that living conditions dropped drastically in
the new villages because of chronic water shortages, poor soil and rubber
plantations that were not ready for harvest.
"In the dry season now there is conflict among us over water," says Anis,
of Koto Tuo village. "Before, we were self-sufficient," adds Romanila,
another villager. "We could grow rice, chilis and coconuts, but now we are
dependent on money -- and there aren't any jobs." As a result, some of the
displaced villagers have begun selling off land to buy medicine or send
their children to school, and many are illegally logging the nearby
forests, insisting there is no other source of income.
"Conditions have pushed people to do anything to survive, and this is why
illegal logging is happening," says clan leader Abdullah Salim of Tanjung
Pau. Also listed among the plaintiffs are the endangered Sumatran elephant
and tiger, the Malay tapir, species of monkeys and other animals.
Environmentalists fear that the reservoir, logging, and construction of new
villages has cut into important remaining habitat and migration routes of
already threatened species, some of which may now be on the verge of
extinction.
The court will decide next month whether or not to accept the claim of the
non-human plaintiffs. For their part, the defendants aren't saying much.
Spokespeople from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as JBIC, JICA
and TEPSCO, are refusing to comment about the case while it is pending.
In a written statement, however, MOFA insists the claim is illegitimate and
should be taken up in Jakarta, since Japanese agencies had made
recommendations to protect the villagers and environment.
But Aviva Imhof of International Rivers Network, an NGO monitoring dams
around the world, says, "It is simply unacceptable for JBIC to provide
hundreds of millions of dollars in funding -- and then to walk away and
deny responsibility for their impacts."
Other ODA-funded projects like the San Roque Dam in the Philippines, the
Lam Takong Pumped Storage Project in Thailand and the Balachung #2
hydropower plant in Myanmar, have faced opposition over issues of forced
displacement, ecological destruction and widespread corruption.
In response to voices urging a rethink, MOFA released a plan for ODA
reforms in 2002 aimed at boosting transparency, improving operations and
increasing NGO involvement. Correspondingly, JBIC has introduced
environmental guidelines which will begin to go into effect this year.
While Hatae Hozue of Friends of the Earth Japan cautiously welcomed this
move, he also points out that the new JBIC requirements don't include
projects like Kotopanjang or San Roque. If it is really serious, he says,
JBIC should "[commit itself] sincerely to these past projects."
Tokyo District Court is scheduled to deliver its judgment in January.
However, according to Rony Iskandar of Taratak, an Indonesian NGO that has
worked extensively with the plaintiffs, the case has already politicized a
people once resigned to the repressive and corrupt policies of Suharto-era
Indonesia. "Now they have the courage to demand their rights from the
government in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years ago," he says.
Even if the court rules in the plaintiffs' favor, though, compensation may
never bring back the Minangkabau's communal lifestyle governed by reverence
for their ancestral land, rivers and forests. Clan leader Abdullah Salim
explains, "We have a saying, 'Allam takambang jadi guru' -- it means 'all
of nature is our teacher.' " As the dam's fallout continues to erode the
natural bounty of his homeland, it isn't clear what will remain to teach
the next generation.
[This article originally appeared in the Japan Times, August 14, 2004.
For more information about the Kotopanjang lawsuit and schedule, see the
Web site of the Supporting Committee of the Victims of Kotopanjang Dam.
Amanda Suutari welcomes reader comments at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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