Dust flew up from the dirt road as the silver Hiace Commuter van carrying the Pundi Sumatra and GEINSA teams slowly turned from the asphalt road onto the dirt road. The white van drove slowly between seemingly endless palm oil plantations. The narrow dirt road meant that every vehicle that passed had to pull over to the side, carefully avoiding...
"The forest is now difficult, we can no longer depend on the forest. If you have land, you should try gardening now," he said. Suku Anak Dalam (SAD), one of the indigenous communities in Jambi Province, has lived for a long time relying on the forest as their source of livelihood. However, modernisation and massive forest encroachment for oil palm plantations and development programmes ...
"The shy woman has now dared to thrill all the participants in this large room. When we first met, her voice was so small that she didn't dare to meet our eyes." When it comes to Juliana, people will find many articles about her as the first woman from the Suku Anak Dalam Jambi community to study at university. Her story is told as a figure ...
In a warm meeting at BAPPEDA Bungo District, stakeholders gathered to discuss and evaluate the journey of the ESTUNGKARA programme for Suku Anak Dalam. From strategic discussions to meaningful field visits, the programme is not just a project, but a movement to empower indigenous communities. Pundi Sumatra in the ESTUNGKARA programme has made efforts to empower the community ...
‘It's a long process, so we rarely want to make it, at most once a week if we go to the forest and find gadung or bana, then we process it,’ he said. He also said that while eating jungle rice, none of his family members got sick, unlike the current situation where children often suffer from digestive problems due to instant food. Many times...
Sarolangun, 16 July 2024 - In commemoration of National Children's Day, Pundi Sumatra together with Dharma Wanita Persatuan (DWP) of Balai Pengelolaan Hutan Lestari (BPHL) Wilayah IV Jambi successfully held a donation distribution and productive seedlings for two Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) communities in Bathin VIII District, Sarolangun Regency, Jambi Province. The event started at 10 ...
"With the support of IPAF, we are trying to develop other productive economic sources and provide technical capacity building for Suku Anak Dalam so that they can carry out farming activities, raise livestock and develop the economy through their ecraf" Building Food Independence through Agricultural Field School Field school is one of the programme approaches that Pundi Sumatra takes to improve technical skills ...
"With a baseline, programme progress can be clearly measured and communities can be intervened with programmes that address needs. So it is easy to compare conditions before and after the programme is implemented," Mapping Potential: Data Collection and Space Mapping as a Basis for Planning and Programme Implementation in Suku Anak Dalam Community The programme "Capacity Building and Food Security of Indigenous Peoples of Suku Anak Dalam ...
Sri Bungo (21 years old), is one of the female cadres from the Suku Anak Dalam community in Dwi Karya Bakti Village, Pelepat Sub-district, Bungo Regency, Jambi Province. Born as the only girl in the family, Sri Bungo feels very loved by her three brothers. The family's source of livelihood is hunting and gardening. Although it doesn't generate much profit ...
"GEDSI knowledge provides participants with a deeper understanding of the concept of inclusive development, so that hopefully the concept of sustainable development that involves all aspects and all groups can be realised," The issue of mainstreaming Gender, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) needs to be integrated in the planning process to the implementation of a programme in every institution. This knowledge aims to encourage...
