PARTICIPATORY GIS TO VERIFY THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FOREST AREAS AND CUSTOMARY PEOPLE'S TERRITORIES (CASE STUDY: KASEPUHAN CIPTEGELAR, THE SUNDANESE CUSTOMARY PEOPLE)

摘要

Both customary people and rain forest are important entities for Indonesia. Determining the boundaries of customary regions on the forest are serious issues for legal recognition as a customary law people/society. Bunch of indigenous/tribal/ethnic people widespread in Indonesia e.g. Sumatera (Suku Kubu/Suku Anak Dalam/Orang Rimba), Kalimantan/Borneo (Suku Dayak). Papua (Suku Asmat, Suku Dani). etc. Surprisingly, there were indigenous/tribal/ethnic people in Jawa which are conserving customary law e.g. Kasepuhan Baduy, Ciptagelar and many more. Some of them are lived in/near the forest. This research was carried out to test the eartometry method with participatory approach for the mapping of customary region which was located in/near the Indonesian national forest. We set Kasepuhan Ciptagelar (Sundanese customary people) as a sample. Research stages are data preparation (topographic dataset and satellite or aerial imageries), verification through direct discussion with customary people, interactive digitation on (digital) map. confirmation (iterative process), field survey, and map visualization. The boundaries of customary region were drawn well and detailed such as the kind of customary uses. We conclude that the method was robust and more efficient to get the whole picture of customary region as it offering effective method for transferring indigenous knowledge to the map. This method could be used as a verification tool too by government especially if the claim areas were overlap with national's forest map or other customary region.