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Riama Al Hidayah, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, IndonesiaEnok Maryani, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Dadang Sundawa, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Neiny Ratmaningsih, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Abstract
Natural resource exploitation and environmental issues have escalated into a global environmental crisis, posing serious threats to the sustainability of human life and development. One indigenous community that actively resists environmental degradation is the Dayak Iban people. This community has long managed its own customary forest, located in the Sungai Utik area of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In response to environmental destruction, the Dayak Iban community of Sungai Utik has demonstrated remarkable efforts in forest conservation. Their success was internationally recognized when they received the Equator Prize in New York in 2019 for protecting their territory from encroachment and the expansion of extractive industries. In 2023, they were also honored with the 4th Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in Lisbon, which acknowledged their outstanding commitment to local action and community-based initiatives that support forest preservation and ecosystem restoration. This research is a type of qualitative research that is a literature study. The problems in this study are 1) How do Dayak Iban people view the environment?, 2) How do Dayak Iban people manage the environment?. The results were 1) The Dayak Iban people hold the view that the forest is our father, the land is our mother, and the water is our blood. 2) Dayak Iban people use the slash-and-burn method, the ash from the burning process would be used as fertilizer and mineral resources for the plants, the clusters will decide to shift their land after 5-10 years.
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Conference: ACSS2025Stream: Ethnicity
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Hidayah R., Maryani E., Sundawa D., & Ratmaningsih N. (2025) Environmental Education: The Philosophical Value of the Dayak Iban Community to Overcome the Problem of Environmental Damage ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 145-153) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.13
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.13
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