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  • The United Nations considers indigenous people local knowledge as a part of sustainable development. In fact, the local knowledge of Orang Rimba has transformed due to the pressure of industrialization. This article describe current ethnoforestry of Orang Rimba using ethnoscience and a multidisciplinary landscape assessment method. Data was collected by participatory observation, in-depth interviews, participatory social mapping, and plant collections, with informants being selected by purposive sampling. This research analysis uses an ethnoforestry approach. The ethnoforestry of Orang Rimba is local knowledge that regulates relationship between lowland forest taxonomy and the whole domain of life the Orang Rimba. Orang Rimba recognized various domains including Rimba Bungaron (primary forest) as related to both social organization and kinship (genah), customary (bebalai), and hunter-gather domain (merayau-nyulogh). Benuaron and Sialang (orchards and honey-producing trees) are classified as agroforestry domain and Bahumaon as rubber and oil palm plantations domain. The ethno-forestry of Orang Rimba has long been known as hunter-gather and swidden agliculture which is no longer the case as previous management of lowland forest has shifted the lives of Orang Rimba to rubber cultivation and oil palm plantation in Twelve Hill National Park.
  • United Nations considers local knowledge as sustainable development. In fact, local knowledge of Orang Rimba has transformed because of pressure industrialization. This article describe current ethno-forestry of Orang Rimba. This research method uses an ethno-science and multidisciplinary landscape assessment. Data was collected by participatory observation, depth interviews, participatory social mapping and plant collections. Informants ware selected by purposive sampling through key informants. Data analysis was carried out using an ethno-forestry approach. The ethno-forestry of Orang Rimba is local knowledge that regulates relationship between lowland forest taxonomy and the whole of domain life the Orang Rimba. Rimba Bungaron is a forest that related both social organization and kinship (genah), customary (bebalai), and hunter-gather domain (merayau-nyulogh) which can be managed by ancestral lineage (setubo). Benuaron and Sialang are orchards and honey-producing trees with agro-forestry domain that are managed by matrilineal lineage (serombong). Bahumaon parah and oil palm are plantations domain that are managed by nuclear family (sebubung). The ethno-forestry of Orang Rimba has long been known as hunter-gather and swidden agliculture which need to be deemed, because previous management of lowland forest have shifted the lives of Orang Rimba to rubber cultivation and oil palm plantation in Twelve Hill National Park