Dayak Customary Rules in Land Opening

Land opening in Kalimantan

Land opening in Kalimantan Source: Nurhadi

Dayak tradition with the shifting cultivation of long standing, but why the problem of forest fires in Kalimantan occurred over the last few years.


Mr. Stephen Masiun a Dayak leader and Chairman of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the West Kalimantan, describing the tradition of shifting cultivation by indigenous peoples. Is it true that this tradition has led to the smoke haze and forest fires? How customary rules in the clearing process?


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