Adung My Friend!

This film was screened at the 1st Green Film Festival in Seoul, 2004

About 30 female orangutans have died as a result of the fires in Kalimantan," said Willie Smits, coordinator of orangutan conservation activities at Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Ministry in Jakarta.

The islands of Borneo — about two-thirds of which is Indonesia's Kalimantan Province — and Sumatra are the only places in the world where orangutans are found in the wild. There are estimated to be fewer than 30,000 of the orange-haired primates — at least 30 percent fewer than a decade ago.

Environmentalists warned that the threat to endangered and vulnerable species could become much worse if the fires continued to spread.

Script and directed by Tonny Trimarsanto
Documentary, 30 minutes




About Tonny Trimarsanto

Tonny Trimarsanto is a film director from Indonesia. His films focus on environmental issues. His film about plastic polluted Garbage Plastic won Best Film at the Indonesia Documentary Film Festival 2002, and "The Dream Land" , (conflict between people in Sumatra and big pulp industry ) won an Excellence Award at the Earth Vision Tokyo International Film Festival 2003. He won Best Short Asia Film for "Renita Renita" at the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in 2007, this film won Best Film at theCulture Unplugged Film Festival in India. more>>

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