BEHIND THE SACRED TREE: LOCAL PEOPLE AND THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES SUSTAINABILITY
ABSTRACT: Local communities
have their own means of maintaining their traditional knowledge and sustaining
the production system of natural resources by designating the resources as
sacred. Without the state’s influence, local people have their own strategies
to conserve the environment and resources, in ways which are more effective
than those enforced by the state. A study done through interview, participatory
observation, and ethnographic methods revealed that local people recognized two
models of natural resources conservation. The first model is the designation of
forests as sacred site, aiming at maintaining the sustainability of ecosystem
and the second model refers to adoption of species as a sacred entity to
sustain production system. Dynamic processes are operating in the sacredness of
both forest and species.
Key words: Conservation, local
people, natural sacred, production system of natural resources, sacred site
Author: MOHAMMAD F. ROYYANI, JOENI
S. RAHAJOE
Journal Code: jpbiologigg140013
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