The site is located in Indonesia, Ketapang Regency, Labai Hilir, that dominated with plantation, forest, and mining. Climate destruction causing wildfire often occur caused by peat, global warming, and human intention for personal benefit such as plantation, mining, and site clearance. The large amount of ex-ilegal mining site in Ketapang, with no one taking the responsibility because complex bureaucracy, law, and regulation making ex-mining site can’t be recovered or taking reclamation back into forest. The existing condition is just a dryland with heavy metal pollution that make plant and vegetation really tough to grow with excruciating condition. The ex-ilegal mining site also near protected Mount Palung National Park conservation forest. A cluster of neo-vernacular tourism, forest conservation, plant soil conservation industry, can be a new magnet to socio economic and environmental conservation for the past and the future. It will affect other vilage economy circulation such as Kuala Labai, Sekucing Kualan, and optimizing the government plan to create a train rail and station in Borneo. The site seems quite a far from city, it acts as the new magnet or hub for city development (on par with airport and harbor) architectural implementation must be able to create a new hub for society. The neo-vernacular implementation is the acculturation of Dayak (Radakng and Baluk), and Melayu. The tourism theme is well-ness, cultural, and forest. The can be adventure tourism if the tourist taking harder route to reach the tourism destination. Every component of forest restoration, animal and plant conservation, fire forest mitigation, ex-mining site (inside and outside site), and tourism have integrated each other and support each other. The cluster can work seamlessly in parallel way and also can support as facility each other even though the location is quite far from city. It requires more than 20 years and some stages to create the cluster into final form.

2024

Site size: 50 hectares


Labai Hilir
Simpang Hulu, Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan
-0.538627, 110.016853

David Chow, Adrian Hudoyo Putra, Dearren Alvado Glendyap, Nicholas Septian Anelka hutapea, Alden Xavier Iddo Frandhansen