Data Dialogues Michelle Cheripka, Open Environmental Data Project, Madhuri Karak

In the season's final episode, we zoom out: palm oil companies are traveling to new countries searching for cheap land and easy land acquisition laws. Toolkits resisting land grabbing by palm oil are traveling, too. Madhuri looks at how mapping and monitoring initiatives from Indonesia have moved across borders to take root in Liberia in Western Africa.

What does mapping sound like? What does it feel like? In our second-to-last episode, Madhuri moves beyond the visual to wrestle with how we might center indigenous ways of knowing, through multi-sensory and multi-species ethnography.

Madhuri follows the mapping process into the mountains of Borneo to speak with indigenous leader Pak Effendi Buhing. He provides testimony about how the Dayak community are using participatory mapping against palm oil conglomerate PT-SML.

In this episode, we learn about JKPP, Indonesia's community mapping network of 190 organizationsl; JKPP's national convener and data team talk with Madhuri about spatial data, social accuracy, and participatory mapping as a political process.

Global powers outsourced climate responsibilities to Indonesia with a deceptively simple idea: the Global North would pay Indonesian villages to not deforest. But you need to know who owns the forest being protected so you can pay them to protect it - and that was the role assigned to OneMap.

This season navigates the promises and frustrations of Indonesia’s OneMap policy: a decade-long, ongoing effort to resolve land conflicts with environmental data. Host Madhuri Karak delves into the limitations of modern cartography and indigenous struggles over being seen.