Bintulu

Bird Surveys in Tropical Plantations　[Motoko Fujita]

Posted on 2014/06/02 by nakane

Bird Surveys in Tropical Plantations Motoko Fujita（Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University）　I started researches on birds in plantations in Indonesia in 2007. The main focus was on the avian diversity in acacia plantations of Company M in Palembang with which RISH (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University) had just started a joint study on acacia. The goal of my research was conservation of the biodiversity by management, as the decrease in biodiversity is a hot issue. Until then, I had been conducting fieldwork only in Japan and this was my first time to do research in Indonesia. I landed at Jakarta airport with a mix of 70% […]

Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Bintulu Division　[Yumi Kato, et al.]

Posted on 2014/02/14 by nakane

Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Bintulu Division Yumi Kato（The Hakubi Project /Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University） Hiromitsu Samejima (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) Ryoji Soda（Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University） Motomitsu Uchibori (Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan) Katsumi Okuno（College of Liberal Arts, J.F.Oberlin University） Noboru Ishikawa (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) Introduction 　The study site of this project is the riverine areas of the Kemena and Tatau Rivers in the Bintulu Division. This article provides an overview of the ethnic groups living along those rivers. However, the details of these people, their backgrounds, and their inter-ethnic […]

”Some aspects of forestry in Sarawak in the 70s”　[Dr. Lee Hua Seng]

Posted on 2012/05/14 by nakane

”Some aspects of forestry in Sarawak in the 70s” （A seminar by Dr. Lee Hua Seng） November 17, 2010 at CSEAS, Kyoto University) 　In 1970, when he finished his study of forestry in The Australian National University, Dr. Lee Hua Seng got a position in the Sarawak Forest Department and was immediately transferred to a logging camp located in deep inland of Bintulu District. According to Dr. Lee, there was no paperwork on job contract back in those days. This rash job assignment tells us well that it was an urgent matter in Sarawak at that time to develop forestry in accordance with the increase of global demand for the […]

An overview of Anap-Muput Forest Management Unit [Hiromitsu Samejima]

Posted on 2012/05/07 by nakane

An Overview of Anap-Muput Forest Management Unit Hiromitsu Samejima（CSEAS, Kyoto University) 　 East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) can be divided into following land categories in general¹ 1. Government land 1.1 Natural reserves such as national parks 1.2 Concessions (the lease of commercial exploitation rights) managed by private companies 1.2.1 Logging management in natural forests (selective logging) 1.2.2 Industrial tree plantation (Plantations of fast-grow- ing trees species (ex. Acacia mangium) 1.2.3 Oil palm plantations 2. Private property mainly employing the shifting cultiva- tion system of hill padi ¹There is some land that is earmarked for other use, but the area is small. 　In sparsely populated East Malaysia, the major part of […]

Characteristics of our research region

Posted on 2012/02/07 by nakane

Characteristics of our research region 　For our project we selected areas along the Kemena and Tatau rivers in the Bintulu district of Sarawak, Malaysia. 　In these areas, we can observe natural forests, logged forests, secondary forests, shifting cultivation fields, and pepper fields all of which are common in many regions of Sarawak. But our research regions have, in addition to that, large-scale oil palm plantations and planted forests of acacia. Today, oil palm is largely cultivated among the small farmers in this area. 　This region provides a wide variety of vegetation on a watershed scale and it is truly remarkable from the aspect of landscape ecology. This region’s heterogeneous landscape […]