Across two gripping episodes, Forgotten brings to life the untold realities…
Forgotten - Episode I
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Across two gripping episodes, Forgotten brings to life the untold realities of Indonesia’s marginalized communities. Through immersive storytelling and powerful visuals, the documentary captures the resilience of those fighting to be seen, highlighting the injustices and hardships they endure.
Episode 1:
Despite being known for its beauty and mystical powers, Bali hides a very crucial issue for its people. Thousands of villagers in East Bali have to settle with toxic water to fulfil their daily needs. This is impacting the young generation’s growth and the health of the Balinese in general. The urban settlements of the island also have a similar problem: rivers are polluted. Here, people rely on rivers to live, and if their water is dirty, the consequences on the health of the villagers can be catastrophic. But there is hope, a group of driven individuals is working on providing cleaner and safer water for the Balinese people.
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My activity starts at 4 am in the morning
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First, I sharpen the knife
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After, I prepare my collecting tools
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Then, I start climbing
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I climb more or less 15 trees a day
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We portray Bali as a lavish island
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everything is very positive
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but it has a downside
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which is a clean water issue
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And East Bali in particular
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which is completely remote from the Bali that we know
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it has this severe issue of clean water
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In this area
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most families don’t have a good economic situation
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If I climb 15 trees a day
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with the amount of sugar that I can collect
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I can earn around 100$ a month
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sometimes more
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This salary is not enough
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so I need to have another income
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such as looking after the pigs
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The pigs are provided by the goverment
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to help us increase our income
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so I can afford to send my kids to school
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In fact, there are many unmet needs in my family
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How do you get water here?
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We take the water from a well
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located in Lake Batur
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Then we collect it trough pipes
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and we share it within the village
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In order to draw the water from the lake
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we need to pay
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When it's your turn, you can get 5,000 litres
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which can be used for around 25 days
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if there are no earthquakes
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If there is an earthquake, the reservoir will crack
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and we would be running out of water
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So, is it hard to get water here?
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The hardest is when we need to wait for our turn
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and our reservoir doesn’t have water anymore
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What I saw in Songan
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is what I would have expected to see in East Bali
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But I did not expect how polluted the water is
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And we are talking about water
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that they use on a daily basis
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They drink that water, they bathe in it
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they use it for cooking
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and any other house chores they need to do
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related to water, they are using the same source
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which is very dirty
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there are living beings inside of it
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It’s not normal
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Who are them?
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This is my father and my mother
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Oh, this is your parents. Nice to meet you!
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This is the pipe where the rainwater flows into, isn't it?
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Yes. We collected there and then it flows into this
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Wow, is this where you store the water for daily usage?
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Yes
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Has anybody ever gotten sick using this water?
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Yes, they have
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What did they have?
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Stomachache, heartburn and indigestion
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Have you ever felt itchy?
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Yes, I have had it
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I cried once looking at this water
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Because I feel pity for my children and me
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One day we didn’t have water at all
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and I had to ask my neighbours to help me
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I needed it for cooking
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Also recently I didn't have water at all for one day
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The other family, which is the brother
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of the first guy whom I met
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I saw him, he has this rashes
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all over his body
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He doesn’t know wether he got it
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because of the water situation
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but the wife has a high suspicion
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that the husband’s condition
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is because of the water
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And the way she treated the husband is
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by boiling the water for showering
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but she knew it would not heal her husband
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And since the water condition has always been like that
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she feels like:
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“I know this is not the solution, if I boil the water”
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We need to move out of here
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in order for my husban to be better
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but that’s not the case, it’s not an option for them
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because they are from that area
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that is their home
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However they do understand that they need to create a change
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and I see that they are very open
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to that change, to that transition
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they just don’t know how
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The flow of water brings fertility and prosperity
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By chance, my name is Mudita
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Mudita means “flowing water”
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We have to mantain and look after the rivers
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and keep them clean
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Because in Bali we believe in a philosophy
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called Tri Hita Karana
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which says that we need to live in harmony with God
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harmony among people
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and harmony with nature
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Rivers must be purified
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because Hinduism has many ceremonies
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in which we use water, for example Ngaben
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So everytime I’m in the village
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I always say that we need to keep the rivers clean
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“People don’t throw trash in the river”
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Because water that flows in the river
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must be clean so we can use it
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Frankly speaking, I’m very concerned about
the condition of the rivers right now
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If we compare them with when I was a small kid
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I was bathing in the river
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I was a farmer's child
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Sometimes, coming back from the ricefields,
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we were going to the river for bathing.
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We didn’t need to bath at our house
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Then the Modern Era came
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and now plastic is everywhere
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At the beginning, I had five friends
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with whom I would clean up the beach
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on Sundays or during holidays
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and often my other friends would tell me:
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“ What is Pak Liong doing? He looks like a crazy person!”
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Even few weeks ago
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while I was cleaning in one of the villages
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a friend passed by and said:
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"Man, what are you doing there?! Like a crazy person"
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I am crazy indeed!
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Crazy about cleaning the trash
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That happens frequently
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Then I met Gary in 2020
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The founder of Sungaiwatch
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I met him during one of their clean-ups
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at my village, at the top of this river
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Gary asked me
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"Pak Man, where is the downstream of this river?"
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"The downstream is close to my house, in the backyard”
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So we immediately came here
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Wow! Now we work together
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They asked me to manage the Tabanan warehouse
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We protect the rivers, so the trash won't
end up in the ocean
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Every rainy season in Bali
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Bali becomes the island of trash
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you can’t look away from it, it’s literally everywhere
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polluting our rivers, our rice fields, our beaches
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We need to clean our rivers, and
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most of the plastic that is in the ocean
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it’s coming from our rivers
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so if we can stop it at the source
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then we can really make a difference
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These rivers are used as garbage cans in Indonesia
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and at Sungai Watch we are on a mission
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to change that mindset
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In a lot of places, unfortunately Indonesia being one of them
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there would be a window right here
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and it’s too much of a common sight
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when you see a bag fly
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out of the window and into the river
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and it just becomes “out of sight out of mind”
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and they’ll never really see that piece of plastic again
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Until it clogs up somewhere
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and obviously pollutes our ocean and our rivers
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This trash never stops
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You can smell the fresh mud “lumpur” from the mangroves
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When you get waist-deep in the water
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it’s tiring, it’s hot, there are mosquitoes
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it’s really difficult work
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and it’s not what you want to be doing everyday
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but this is really disaster relief
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and unless someone goes in and cleans it up
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it almost feels like no one else will
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This is the barrier
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we actually have ten of these in this one stream
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and this is a daily catch
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What happens to the quality of the water
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when a diaper enters this water?
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people are still swimming in this water
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they are washing the clothes in this water
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and when you are mixing all this trash...
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There are diapers, there are dead animals
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we just saw a dead chicken floating through
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it’s probably underneath this trash
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Plastic is the danger that we can see
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but what about the toxic chemicals inside of this water
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There are 370 rivers here in Bali
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and they are all running in Bali’s most populated places
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people rely on this water to live
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and there are so many chemicals, there is so much...
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we don’t even know what’s in this water
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and so the impact to our skin
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we are only starting to understand what that is
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Cleaning up the river is half the battle
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the other half is sorting and processing the trash
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We are dealing with the worst type of waste out there
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and we are doing everything to give it a second life
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The Bali that I know it is not like the Bali that I saw
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and this makes me question the quality
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of the water that I have as well
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The core issue is our waste management
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we still have a lousy, horrible waste management
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It’s actually us the issue
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how we take care of that pollution is up to us
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If we look at it as part of our home
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where we live, I think we can have better solutions
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and a better attitude towards polluting our nature
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Here is Songan there is as many as 400 families
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that don’t have access to clean drinking water
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like we have seen over the last few days
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So this part of Bali was really calling to us
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as the most in need
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Dirty drinking water is bad news
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E-coli, things like Giardia, typhoid, cholera
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these things grow in water
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and these are things that actually kill people
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Dysentery, stunting is a huge problem in Indonesia
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and it also comes from water
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Where is the water reservoir?
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Which one is it?
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This one
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This is the reservoir, where they store their water
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Oh, this is the place where you take the water
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This is where I take my water
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So, these are all your dippers?
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I use this kind of dipper and also this one
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We often have water related problems
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Especially now, during dry season
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we certainly need more water
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During rainy season, we drink rain water
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When it's dry season, we take turns
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to get water from the well (down the lake)
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During the dry season
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it can happen that it doesn’t rain for more than 10 days
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and this makes it difficult for us
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We can run out of water for 3 days
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or even a week
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I often tell my kids, especially when they are taking a bath
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“Since we don't receive much water, please don't waste it”
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So sometimes, I build a shower making a hole in a bucket
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so the water is only dripping
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Our water is quite black, dark, turbid
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There are tadpoles
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we also don’t have a cover for the reservoir
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My children got diarrhea and vomiting from it
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when we bathe it feels very itchy
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since the water is not clean
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But when we get thirsty, we don't have any options. We just drink it.
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That's also what is stopping my childrens’ growth
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Like my third child Komang, he smaller than normal
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It’s because of the water
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that my family is drinking
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I feel really pity
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Pity...
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Deep inside my heart I feel really guilty
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But I have no other options
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I can't afford to buy more water
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I can't afford to buy more water
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We want to make a water filter for every single family
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Filters remove barriers to entry for families
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that wouldn’t otherwise have access to clean drinking water
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because they are boiling it, or they don’t have the finacial
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ot the time resources to boil their water
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so they are drinking that dirty water directly
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So filters are literally saving lives
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We have learned that what really makes the difference
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in the long-term use for the families
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is the education
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So for every single family member that gets a filter
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we are dedicated to the water sanitation hygiene training
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Just wash it without any soap
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The more empowered they are to use their filter
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they start to see the value, they see the cost saving
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they see the time saving the see the health benefits
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What Terra is working on is changing the perspective
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the culture that we already have
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since the day we were born
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which is: we are buying water
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we don’t have access to clean water therefore we need to buy it
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everywhere in Indonesia that is the concept of water
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so changing that perspective of
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you can have clean water
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And I whish, I truly whish
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everyone in Indonesia should know about it
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for us to have an equality to get clean water for drinking
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I’ll never stop educating people
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especially the ones around my house
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I’ll always educate and ask people to join me
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to maintain and protect the rivers
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so that we can keep the rivers clean
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Trash will become a disaster one day
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If we don't start to care and protect the rivers
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There's a chance that this behaviour will bring disasters in the future
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That's what concerns me the most
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We have always thought about crazy ideas
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because that’s what moves people
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that is what starts a movement
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and in my head it was like:
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“What if we could do 100 barriers around Bali”
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symbolically to get a movement happening
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We had no agenda
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We placed our first barrier right next to our parents’ house
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It’s still living there
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and it became sort of my baby
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At 2am after a big rain
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I’d get down, clean it
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me and my girlfriend, and literally just attend at this barrier
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and we would just watch it as trash would accumulate
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and having nowhere to put it
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we would use our parents’ garage to begin the operation
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and I was by myself with just this dream of 100 barriers
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We are very proud to say that up until now
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we’ve already placed 150 barriers across Bali
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and the goal is a 1000 over the next couple of years
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throughout Indonesia’s most polluted rivers
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When you are able to visualise it and tell yourself
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“What if we really do get to 100 barriers”
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and show the world that Bali can be that leading example island
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protecting its rivers and sort of be a space of inspiration
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for other places around the world to do the same thing
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People are still using rivers as garbage cans
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even on an industrial level
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Big industrial firms are still using them to “buang” to throw away
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all of their factory waste, textile waste
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And so, yes, we have pissed off a lot of players out there
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because finally, all of a sudden
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you have people that are actually paying attention
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to the garbage cans, the rivers of Bali
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But ultimately we are trying to show them that
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our work is not just for ourselves but for society, for nature
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this dream for Bali for a better and more beautiful island
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Really, it’s funny because when you think of these goals
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we still feel like it’s a drop in a bucket
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you know, we get to 100 barriers and then we get to Java
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and we realise that Bali is a tiny island
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and Indonesia is a huge coutry and there is so much need for this everywhere
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So we are really happy with where we are
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but we still feel like there is a lot that we can do
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I think, on a local waste management perspective
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people see trash by the side of the river
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and they think that it’s okay to add more
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because that is the landfill of this village
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But unfortunately all these landfills are next to rivers
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and I think that something that people aren’t realizing
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is that this landfill will tumble down into the river
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and contribute to the pollution
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If we can teach that to people
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and really make landfills and illegal dumping a priority
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I think we can really move mountains in terms of
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how much plastic will enter the rivers in the first place
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Access to water. It is a basic human right
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And it’s sustainable develpment goal number 6
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How can we get people to start to wrap their heads around
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this idea of access to water should be free
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not just for people who can pay for it, but for everyone
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Our social work is as impactful as
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the work that we do in the city
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where we save people time and money
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on buying water gallons that are typically sold in plastic as well
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Terra’s long term goal is to really continue to serve both demographics
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We believe by making a beautiful aspirational water filter
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we can reinvest our profits into our yayasan, into our foundation
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and we can really start working in places like East Indonesia
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that have the highest incidents of diarrheal diseases
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If there's no water, I can't live
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I can't cook, I can't bath
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I can't drink
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So the need of water is bigger than other things in our life
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My whish for the people of Songan is...
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Honestly, I want them to be healthy
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I just want them to be healthy
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The issue now is how to make it better
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How can we create that change that they’re able to do
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to make their life better
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to have a clean water access
Distributor: Collective Eye Films
Length: 29 minutes
Date: 2024
Genre: Expository
Language: English; Indonesian / English subtitles
Grade: College, Adults
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