Borneo: The Jungle Convoy | Roads of the impossible

00:00 Borneo has one of the last primary forests in Southeast Asia.
A treasure that makes the fortune of forestry operations. Loggers and drivers come from all over Indonesia to seek the best wages in the country, felling with a vengeance. Dangerous work carried out in extreme conditions. Massive deforestation has disfigured the region to the point of endangering the wildlife and indigenous peoples who live there. Borneo, the fourth largest island in the world, has become the symbol of this unequal struggle against the big companies that exploit its wealth to the detriment of its inhabitants, its fauna and its flora.
03:08 The island is shared between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei
04:50 Everyone in Borneo is armed
10:42 According to tradition, each tree houses a spirit
13:10 Former head-cutting tribe, now peaceful
13:59 To earn a living, Ali resells birds on the markets
19:48 Borneo is experiencing an ecological disaster, the island has lost 85% of its primary forest
21:05 The wood from this forest is considered the hardest in the world
24:24 With the rains, he has to drive on a muddy road
28:11 In the Derawan archipelago, the inhabitants hope that the search for oil will not destroy the archipelago
32:37 the inhabitants of this archipelago are called sea gypsies
35:30 With his load of wood, the road becomes perilous
41:00 To transport the trunks, they make them float
44:55 But sometimes the forest regains ground by erasing human traces.
Director: Alexandre Deraims