Jakarta: A documentary short from RFA-affiliated news service BenarNews explores concepts of the green economy in Indonesia’s North Kalimantan province. Through conversations with people living along the river, environmental activists, and project developers, “A River Out of Time” focuses on some of Indonesia’s latest and most ambitious development projects: its still-under-construction capital city, Nusantara; a sprawling green industrial zone; and a cascade of five dams planned along the Kayan River.

According to Radio Free Asia, Indonesia’s central government is also forging ahead with plans to construct five dams along three rivers in North Kalimantan province as part of Southeast Asia’s largest hydropower project. Scheduled for completion in 2035, the cost of the cascade is estimated at more than $20 billion and could yield a generation capacity of 9,000 megawatts. The sense of uncertainty shared by Kayan River communities depicted in the film mirrors that of countless others around the world in today’s era of climate change, said BenarNews Managing Editor Kate Beddall. “A River Out of Time” allows us to reflect on what we lose as we alter the natural world and our own place in it.