When the Sea Loses Its Fish, and People Lose Hope
The Karimata Strait, the blue waters separating Kalimantan from Belitung, holds countless mysteries. There, among green, quiet islands, lies a small island called Penebang. It is said that a rock resembling a human face stands on its mountain summit, and that supernatural beings live beneath its dense canopy, protecting the island from human mischief.
Today, however, Penebang Island’s mystery is no longer a stone face or unseen guardians. The real mystery is how an island that had been home to fishing communities and marine life for decades could suddenly become an enormous industrial zone. And how, beneath the roar of heavy machinery and the thunder of explosions, lives have been lost and fishers deprived of their livelihoods.
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