Community Initiatives
To overcome these challenges, we the community of Alutok have
taken several initiative. One of them is to conduct activities to raise
awareness and understanding of Naufasan Tavol and its importance
together with community members, village leaders and stakeholders. In
addition, we also hold exhibitions on this Naufasan in the village as well as
on the district and state level.
We will distribute this Tavol protocol to community members,
viallge leaders, the Native Court and elected representatives. With this
documentation, we hope that support and cooperation from the
community, village leaders and stakeholders will improve.
We will also hold workshops together with stakeholders to improve
the cooperation between our community and these stakeholders, namely
the Sabah Forestry Department, the Wildlife Department and the company
Sabah Forest Industries in sustainable forest and resource management.
In addition, we will highlight zoning in our Iningaan Mai area to
stakeholders for support and to tell them that our Murut Tahol community
is able to govern our customary territories. Besides that, we will form a
monitoring plan and place signboards in our Iningaan Mai.
Passing down knowledge is important to ensure the continuity of
our identity as Murut Tahol. Hence, we wish to pass down our knowledge
to the younger generation in our community by promoting Naufasan Tavol
through the celebration of Orou Tavol (Tavol Day) which will be celebrated
every year. We believe that through this initiative, the younger generation
will practise and pass down this knowledge to the next generation.
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