People Monitor
Disturbed Living Space SVLK Monitoring in Central Kalimantan “SVLK monitoring prevents forest encroachment in customary area and villages road is no longer damaged because of wooden hauling trucks that often pass, avoided from big flood, and the indigenous people still can hunt and concocting medicine.” Wancino, a monitor from Dayak Ngaju Katingan indigenous people (20 January 2021).
Historically, Dayak Ngaju indigenous people is closely related to various livelihood practices, such as subsistence-based shifting cultivation, forest products collection, fishing and hunting, and the pattern of the residence is in longhouse following the large river and the nuclear family house which is located along small river (sei). From the description of Pak Wancino above shows that forest is not only important for Ngaju indigenous people in Katingan, but also shows that how that interest is pursued, one of which is by conducting forest monitoring through the existing tools, that is SVLK monitoring. What Pak Wancino confirmed is Ngaju indigenous people can carry out physical mobility smoothly without passing damage roads; avoided from big flood; and the sustainability protein access through hunting and using natural medicine from the forest. The direct impact from deforestation can be learned from flood case a year ago and this year. For example, in mid of 2020, there were 5 sub-districts in Katingan district which were hit by big flood. In Sanaman sub-district, where Pak Wancino lives, there are more than 1,000 households affected by flood. From 14 villages in this sub-district, 10 of them were directly affected by last year’s and this year flood. According to Pak Wancino, big flood often occurs in the last 5 years in his area. Some of those matters show that how vulnerable indigenous people are, receiving the impact of landscape change because of forest logging. Therefore, Ngaju indigenous people with various interested parties try to find out the causes through the monitoring of the alleged of illegal logging in Katingan area, Central Kalimantan. The monitoring of Ngaju indigenous people of the alleged of illegal logging in Katingan focused to two business unit of sawmill, they are UD Kawus Masauh and UD Karya Abadi; and two permit 41
