Kambiyain Village in Meratus Mountain, High Tebing District, Balangan District, South Kalimantan has abundant natural beauty and wealth. The village located around 179 kilometers from Banjarbaru City, the capital of South Kalimantan is one of the five villages that become the place to paint the Dayak Pitap community. Together with four other villages, namely Ajung Village, Mayanau Village, Langcap Village, and Desa Dayak Pitap, the community has an area of ??22,806 hectares.
A few kilometers before entering the territory of the village, people will be patched with the beauty of the scenery of the subsidiaries to the lush tropical rainforest with a variety of games, including the meratus (Zosterops meratusensis) glasses that fly free in the cool air and clean from pollution.
The five villages are also rich in agricultural outcomes. Generally, they plant rice, shrimp, and nuts, various types of vegetables, such as chili, tomato, eggplant, crank, to map. In addition they also plant fruit trees, such as duku, banana, cempedak, and lai fruit.
Photos of the Dayak Pitap tribe settlements surrounded by plantations, fields, as well as indigenous forests in Meratus mountain areas.
The Seri Dayak Pitap tribe, Lisa treats rice plants in the fields belonging to the family in Kambiyain Village.
In addition to planting, local communities also seek forest results such as kemiri, rubber, pinang, damar, rotan, honey, or gaharu.
One of the privileges of the Dayak Pitap community, each family has a hedgehog with a variety of storage capacity from 3 tons to 5 tons. The hull can hold the harvest result of their rice fields that are used for food stocks up to about three years.
They have previously been observing the message of the ancestors to not purchase the padi seedlings and the result of the harvest because it is believed to bring maps to themselves or parties who buy them. If you need, they will share each other with a number of custom ritual terms.
The Seriga Dayak Pitap brings parangs to live and garden in Ajung Village. The village of Kambiyain Anang Suriani harvested my duku fruit in his family garden.
Photo collage of a number of earth results, duku fruit (left top), lai fruit (top soup), banana fruit (bottom), and peanut (bottom soup) in Kambiyain Village.
According to Kambiyain Anang Suriani Village Head (39) the Dayak Pitap community has never been affected by price fluctuations and rice supply from outside, as often in other areas in Indonesia.
"As a type of food has been available from nature in our customary forest area, making us, farming and traditionally open the fields are part of the rituals of indigenous beliefs as well as maintaining custom forests along its content is a obligation, part of the life offered down the findings of our ancestors," he said.
However, the Dayak Pitap community is concerned about the wealth of nature in the region is threatened. A variety of threats from the opening of mining efforts to oil palm plantations makes their lives in calm. The nearest coal mine from the region is about 15 kilometers.
The Seri Dayak Pitap tribe gathered with his family in Kambiyain Village. The village of Kambiyain Anang Suriani (right) poses with his daughter Rose Image Lastary before departing to the garden in Kambiyain Village.
Warga Dayak Pitap tribe, Rabadi checked the hemp in his house in Kambiyain Village.
The utilization of remote sensing of the National Aviation and Antariksa Institute (LAPAN) calls, in the period of 2010-2022, there was a decrease in land area in South sentences. Primary forest area for example, descending by 13,000 hectares, secondary forest area drops around 116,000 hectares, rice fields and shrubs of each down about 146,000 hectares and 47.000 hectares. In contrast, the plantation area extends quite significant that is 219.000 hectares.
"We should be aware of keeping with the natural landscape of Meratus Mountains from over the destructive land function, everything should be tightened for this nature, the earth, for our grandchildren later," Anang said.
Text & Photos: Aji Styawan
The Seri Dayak Pitap tribe, Rabadi showed the worship stored in the house in Kambiyain Village.
the camp of Dayak Pitap people when gathering listening to the story of land functioning in South Kalimantan.
Author : Nyoman Budhiana
The air photo is one of the coal mines with the background of Meratus Mountains in South Kalimantan.
The children of the Dayak Ribbonp tribe care for a Grey Lutung child (Trachypithecus cristatus) separate from his parent in the interior of the Meratus Mountain.
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