RT Article
T1 Re-Establishing Human-Nature Relations: Responses of Indigenous People of Indonesia to Covid-19
JF Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
VO 7
IS 2
SP 447
OP 472
A1 Maarif, Samsul
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1782635637
AB Indigenous peoples of the world, including those of Indonesia, were more potentially at risk for Covid-19, due to their being marginalized and thus their lack of access to necessary information resources. Despite being marginalized and vulnerably impacted by the pandemic, indigenous people of Indonesia had re-contextualized their indigenous strategies that enabled them to survive and even offer lessons worth considering: indigenous ecocentrism. Data on their ideas and responses to the pandemic were collected through weekly webinars, featuring representatives of indigenous people as the main speakers, personal calls, and supported by a series of fieldwork, including data on the situation before the pandemic. Their responses to the pandemic were commonly based on ecocentrism; that Covid-19 was an ecological disaster caused by human’s misconducts against humanity and human-nature relations. In response, they took responsibilities to perform eco-centric rituals, and called for a re-establishment of ecological human-nature relations to deal with Covid-19.
K1 Indonesia
K1 Ecocentrism
K1 Covid-19
K1 Indigenous People
DO 10.30965/23642807-bja10023