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  • PESTA DEMOKRASI: FRONT KEDAULATAN MALUKU MENUNTUT PENGEMBALIAN KEDAULATAN RMS 25 APRIL 1950 – 25 APRIL 2014
  • PHOTOS FKM-RMS DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA ON OCTOBER 26, 2010 & SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
  • PROKLAMASI NEGARA REPUBLIK MALUKU SELATAN (RMS)
  • MAFIA HUKUM INDONESIA - JUDICIAL MAFIA
  • INDONESIAN PRESIDENT JOKO “JOKOWI” WIDODO SURROUNDED BY KILLERS & RENT-SEEKERS
  • GOLPUT & KORUPSI POLITIK di INDONESIA dan PEMILIHAN 2014 - NON VOTERS / THE WHITE GROUP & POLITICAL CORRUPTION in INDONESIA and the 2014 ELECTIONS
  • INDONESIA = REPUBLIK MALING & KEBOHONGAN REZIM SBY
  • CORRUPTION - POVERTY & UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN THE MOLUCCAS – KORUPSI - KEMISKINAN DAN KETERBELAKANGAN DI MALUKU
  • PALM OIL PLANTATION CRIME IN INDONESIA AND ITS CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINE
  • MASELA - OIL AND GAS BLOCKS CAN LIBERATE MALUKU FROM POVERTY
  • ILLEGAL GOLD RUSH ON BURU ISLAND IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • SAVE ARU ISLANDS
  • SAVE ROMANG
  • SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO AND HIS GENERALS
  • INDONESIAN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT WITH AGGRESSIVE MINING, ILLEGAL LOGGING AND ILLEGAL FISHING IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • LASKAR JIHAD - SUHARTO COMPANIONS AND THE MOLUCCAN CIVIL WAR - JUSTICE DEMAND
  • MOLUCCAS: GENOCIDE ON THE SLY - INDONESIA’S TRANSMIGRATION PROGRAM
  • OUR CAMPAIGN & CONTACT MICHR
  • ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE MOLUCCAS - PENGUNGSI DI MALUKU
  • INSIDE INDONESIA’S WAR ON TERROR
  • TNI, BRIMOB AND STATE TERROR IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • IMPUNITY AND THE INDONESIAN MASTERS OF TERROR
  • STOP KILLING - ASSAULTING and KIDNAPPING JOURNALISTS IN INDONESIA
  • 8 March - International Women's Day
  • 26-june---un-international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture
  • 9 August - UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
  • RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES - HAK ASASI MASYARAKAT ADAT
  • THE DUTCH - INDONESIA CORPORATE CONNECTION
  • LIBERATING OUR COLONIAL MINDSET
  • UNPO: IN PURSUIT OF THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
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  • GAJAH DENGAN GAJAH BERLAGA, ORANG MALUKU MATI DI TENGAH - TENGAH
  • THE PLAYERS BEHIND THE MALUKU MADNESS
  • INDONESIAN STATE SPONSORED UNBRIDLED NICKEL EXPLOITATION IN NORTH MOLUCCAS: SERVING THE ECONOMIC INTEREST OF INDONESIAN OLIGARCHS AND CHINA

ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MOLUCCAS

Maurice Strong on the impending global environmental catastrophe...

"If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse." -Maurice Strong quoted in the September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine.

Maurice Strong is one of the most influential men in the world. He is a senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, organizer of the Rio Earth Summit and former senior advisor to the President of the World Bank. When media mogul Ted Turner wanted to give the United Nations $1,000,000,000 to work on finding solutions for international conflict and environmental decline, he first consulted Strong. In the past thirty years, no single person has done more for the environment movement - and provided a platform for change - than Strong.

With the publication of Where On Earth Are We Going? (TEXERE, April 23, 2001, 456 pages, clothbound, $27.95), Strong reveals his pivotal role in the political and environmental activist movements, and talks plainly about what remains to be done. And there remains much to be done. Strong provides a historical context by which to judge our progress in the struggle to save the planet from environmental degradation, and lends insight as to where we are heading.


Eliza Kissya: "Today, people talk about sustainable development. But hundreds of years ago, our ancestors created and enforced sasi, laws which are still adhered to in our community".

Eliza Kissya: Preserving the 'sasi' tradition against the odds 
The Jakarta Post May 11, 2006
M. Azis Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon, Maluku

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Eliza Kissya has for 27 years dedicated his life as a kewang chief to guarding the land and waters around his village on Haruku island in Central Maluku regency.

The 57-year-old Haruku native who comes from a family of kewang (traditional village policemen), says his job to conserve the environment in accordance with tradition is not easy.

Unpaid and alone he regularly deals with fishermen who use explosives in the area to stop them destroying the marine ecosystem, particularly the coral reefs.

He also meets state officials, bosses, mining companies and even opposes government legislation that does not conform to the traditional norms his ancestors laid down hundreds of years ago.

Despite the stressful nature of his work, Eliza felt unable to refuse being appointed a kewang chief by his Kissya clan. He and his brother gave up school at elementary level to undergo preparation for their future positions.

Eliza was officially appointed kewang chief in 1979, while his brother is now the village secretary. His first challenge was Law No. 5/1979, which aimed to bring uniformity to all rural administrations throughout the country. Eliza says the enforcement of this law weakened traditional, village-level institutions in Maluku.

Eliza stood his ground against the new law, working to maintain the kewang institution and its central concept -- sasi -- conservation-inspired prohibitions passed down by his ancestors.

As a kewang chief, he feels called upon to apply the traditions of sasi as a means to preserve natural resources on land and in the water.


There are three kinds of sasi in Haruku: marine, terrestrial and domestic prohibitions. To protect a particular species of fish, one must enforce a marine sasi in a particular part of the ocean. Fishing is then forbidden in this particular area for a certain period of time, say a year or two.

When a sasi is enforced in a particular part of a forest, people are not allowed to collect anything from the area for a set period. Anyone violating the law is normally subjected to social sanctions along with material ones in the form of a fine.


Domestic sasi in Haruku are concerned particularly with personal morality and conduct. A man is allowed to be outdoors wearing only a sarong during the day, except when he is sick. However, when a woman comes home from taking a bath or washing clothes in the river, she must wrap her body in a cloth, covering it past her breasts. Violating these sasi leads to a fine of Rp 10,000.
Eliza says the different kinds of sasi stem from one traditional source -- generations of wisdom about how to deal with nature.
Sasi govern the relationship between human beings and nature as well as between people.   

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The power of ‘sasi’: A sustainable taboo
How sticks, signs and crucifixes help manage forests in Maluku
Forests News /  23 JAN 2018
​UU Masyarakat Adat: Sebuah Pilihan
Merdesa Institute | Agustus 15, 2018
Bagi Masyarakat Adat, Kehilangan Lahan Sama Saja Kehilangan Nyawa
WRI | 04 Juni 2018​
Pemerintah didesak bekerja lebih cepat bagi masyarakat adat
BBC | 17 Maret 2017
Local Knowledge Conference: Temuan dan Tantangan Penerapan Sasi Laut di Maluku
Pattiro | April 14, 2016
​Budaya 'Sasi' di Maluku Jaga Perikanan Potensi 
Republika | Kamis 04 December 2014
Puluhan Warga di Maluku Lakukan Sasi Adat
Liputan6 | 17 Mei 2010
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Eliza Kissya wrote a book --
Sasi Aman Harukui (The Sasi of Haruku) -- in which he describes the sasi traditions and the kewang role to the public.
  • "SASI System" - An indigenous Way
  • Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in  Maluku Islands

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  • Bapak Raja Rahail, The Wise King of "Kei Besar" Island
  • Raja Rahail: We are all one - How custom overcame religious rivalry in Southeast Maluku
  • NO TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT TO THE EVAV PEOPLE OF KEI BESAR
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Radja J.P. Rahail wrote a book about the customay law of Kei (Hukum Adat Kei ) ▼
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