He can't see that anyone in South Kalimantan or Jakarta cares for his interests.
They have been coming to West Kalimantan since the 1930s, but the flow has increased since the 1970s.
Hundreds of fires are burning, mainly in East Kalimantan, but also in Sumatra.
He also has a 700, 000-hectare forest concession in Kalimantan, where he wants to plant palm sugar, and other landholdings in Papua.
Most Madurese in West Kalimantan came to the province under the government's transmigration program, and make up 1%-2% of the population.
Basuki, the South Kalimantan businessman, says banks typically ask for collateral worth 90% of the value of the loan from small businesses.
Kertas Nusantara, the pulp producer in East Kalimantan of which he owns 50%, shut its mill in 2008 when pulp prices fell.
In East Kalimantan 39% of jobs are in forestry, mining or agriculture.
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He and his family still own a palm-oil estate and mill in Sumatra and he and his brother have a pulp mill in Kalimantan.
When the forest is on peat, as in much of central Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua, the cost of Indonesia's messy land use becomes epic.
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East Kalimantan, for example, spent 11 billion rupiah on the local team last year, even forking out on players from Mexico, Argentina and South Korea.
Six companies affiliated with Nusantara held licences for six blocks in the East Kutai district of East Kalimantan province, but did not explore for coal.
In West Kalimantan they have found themselves living alongside the Dayaks, a warrior people with an elaborate etiquette that shuns confrontations, except for full-scale tribal wars.
But the vast expanse of West Kalimantan makes policing difficult.
Yet the binds of red tape are one big reason these businesses, from furniture makers in Kalimantan to food producers in Java, fail to live up to their potential.
Emmy Hafild, director of Walhi, an environmental group that also played poll watchdog, claims Golkar tried to bribe voters throughout isolated rural areas in Kalimantan, southeastern Indonesia and Sumatra.
Sibling rivalry reached a climax of sorts with the fabulous (in both senses) Busang gold deposit in Kalimantan, claimed as among the world's biggest until shown to be a hoax.
Rattan mat maker Muhammad Yani, from Kalimantan, understands that.
At the same time East Kalimantan, where Bayan operates, is considering plans to cap annual coal output in an effort to promote alternative energy and cut back on the damage coal mining has done to the environment.
The richest of these, East Kalimantan, receives ten times more money per inhabitant than the poorest province, Banten, while the richest district (Fakfak, in West Papua) takes in 50 times more per person than the poorest (Belu in East Nusa Tenggarah).
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