KUCHING: The Institute of Borneo Studies (IBS) at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) is holding a talk on sustainable management of clean water resources, featuring retired civil servant and Associate Research Fellow Jayl Langub.
Entitled ‘Rivers for Livelihood: Eastern Penan and Lun Bawang Perspectives’, it will focus on the sustainable management of clean water resources from rivers by the Penan and Lun Bawang communities.
The event will take place at the IBS Meeting Room, Institute for Borneo Studies, UNIMAS on April 28 at 2.30 pm.
Langub, who is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Borneo Studies and one of the advisors of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Malaysia), will touch on two sustainable concepts that guide the Penan people in managing their resources in the forest, mihau and molong, and how they relate to the Lun Bawang’s management of their rice fields.
He will also discuss how the Penan and Lun Bawang communities rely on clean water to process their staple sago flour and rice fields, respectively.
Langub is also an advisor to FORMADAT, an Alliance of the Indigenous People of the Highlands of Borneo, whose goal is to maintain the integrity of their highland homeland in the Heart of Borneo through conservation and sustainable development.
This public talk is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the preservation of forests and the sustainable development of Borneo.
Interested individuals can visit https://forms.office.com/r/v3aC1PhrCq to register.
“The event promises to be informative and thought-provoking, offering insights into the sustainable management of clean water resources from rivers by the Penan and Lun Bawang communities,” IBS said in a statement.
