Making and Unmaking Territories with Plants in the Riverine Peat Landscape of Central Kalimantan

Central Kalimantan, located on the Indonesian side of Borneo, has often been described as a state frontier area where rapid changes take place in legal and administrative regimes rules that govern access ownership to land nature. Today, development includes non-state actors bring natural resource projects aimed at producing long-term effects by engaging local people commodification Local adopt abandon these pace due changing conditions, policies, hazards. I will explore terms territorial spatial temporal reordering human-nature relations within landscapes Kalimantan. Linked expansion trees plants, challenges environmental practices forms sociality. The paper argues nature aspects this new layers complications thus have unexpected lives populations. Keywords: frontier, commodification, landscape, state-making, Kalimantan