Mangkawagu Village is to be involved in a development plan (pelan terancang)
together with Soguon Village and Tampasak VIllage. Our community is worried
about this plan, because we have never been involved in the planning that is
intended.
Pressure on the land development situation in Mangkawagu has raised various
questions in the community. The older generation think that the continuity of
these customs and traditional knowledge is important and should be passed
down to the next generation while the younger generation think about
whether it is still relevant in current times when the forest is growing smaller
and the honey trees are gradually disappearing.
This situation has become a dilemma for our community whereby we ask
ourselves, because of development and the need for money, our community
will be forced to leave our practice that has been passed down from
generation to generation and our identity and uniqueness as the Mangkawagu
community will be lost.
Nowadays, our community has already seen the effects especially on the
Mangkawagu River that is a part of our daily needs. During the drought
season, our community will experience skin diseases when using the
Mangkawagu River. This is because the area around Mangkawagu River and
its tributaries (refer to the table above) has been planted with oil palm.
4.2. Community Plans
With the growing pressure on natural resources, our community has made
plans for our Iningeladan area. The following are our community's plans to
protect the Mangkawagu Iningeladan:
1.
Mapping of Existing Resources
Mapping of natural resources will be conducted in the community Iningeladan
area. This is for the purpose of identifying the resources that are threatened
and the resources that are still available. Besides that, mapping of existing
resources is also important for monitoring puposes in the Iningeladan area.
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