When the Rains Don’t Come: El Niño and the Crisis Unfolding in Borneo

Originally published in Malaysiakini. It takes five and a half hours by boat across the Bakun reservoir to reach Long Jawe, a remote Indigenous village on the reservoir’s furthest inlet. When we arrived, our boat driver’s dogs came down to meet him. They were up to their necks in mud, trudging through it to reach … Continue reading When the Rains Don’t Come: El Niño and the Crisis Unfolding in Borneo