Assessing people’s perceptions of forests: Research in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

We conducted research in four villages, among two ethnic groups in and around the Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve (DSWR) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia1: • Wong Garai: A 14-household longhouse lying along the northeastern periphery of the DSWR. In this fairly typical local Iban situation, rice is cultivated in long-fallowed hill swiddens and short-fallowed swamp swiddens, and households rely on nontimber forest product (NTFP) collec- tion, supplementary cash crops of rubber, and long-term circular labor migration (see Wadley 1997; Colfer and others 2000a). These Dayak people are a mixture of Christian and animist.