The Dayak Iban Way of Farming

For hundreds or even thousands of years, the indigenous Dayak people of the island of Borneo have cultivated their land, based on the traditional beliefs that has developed throughout those many years, rotating from one field to another, leaving it for years to regain it’s fertility, and once the time comes, clearing the field by burning so it can be cultivated once more.

But now the situation has changed, there are indigenous dayak farmers who have been arrested for performing this cultural tradition, citing that they are the cause of the forest fires and haze, while thewhilst the big corporations that have been suspects in these cases continue business as usual.