Indigenous Schools, an Initiative to Maintain Cultural Integrity and Traditional Knowledge

1. Indigenous Schools, an Initiative to Maintain Cultural Integrity and Traditional Knowledge Yayasan Pendidikan Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (YPMAN – The Foundation for the Archipelago Indigenous’ Education)

2. Indigenous Youth Home Coming Movement • Indigenous Youth Homecoming Movement is a movement that calling back all indigenous youth to return to their communities to manage and protect their territories. • Involving indigenous youth in participatory community mapping • Tracing Ancestors’ Path bydocumenting ancestors’ traditional ways through story telling, text (writing), photos and videos • Cultural learning exchanges and reflection • In 2015, 3 young ‘educated’ indigenous women committed to initiate Sekolah Adat (Indigenous School) in their own community

3. Sekolah Adat PunanSemeriot (SAPS) Dayak Punan Community – North Kalimantan • No formal education available in the area • Combination of Formal and Indigenous Education • The elders teach cultures, while the youth teach basic education for eradicating illiteracy for indigenous children who have difficulty accessing formal education

4. SekolahAdatSamabue (SAS) Dayak Kanayatn Community West Kalimantan • Formal education available in the area • Children goes to school daily • The Indigenous Schools scheduled every 2 days in a week • The teachers are combination between elders and the youth

5. SekolahAdat Koha Minahasa Community, North Sulawesi • Combination of Formal and Indigenous education • Most of the students are teenagers

6. Challenges • Private sectors and government’s interest is still very much on the exploitation of natural resources in indigenous land and territories, while the culture and traditional have been eroded from colonialization and land grabbing. This led to the decreasing of community’s knowledge resources. • In other hand, the keeper of collective memory these days is very few left, this has an impact on the reduction of collective memory on indigenous knowledge within the communities, as the knowledge resources for the Indigenous Schools. • There are commitments from Ministry of Culture and Education in recognizing Indigenous Schools, however, it was not followed by providing adequate resources/budget. • There are no concrete project or program on Indigenous Education by UN Agencies that we can collaborate with.

7. Yayasan Pendidikan Adat Nusantara (YPMAN – The Foundation for the Archipelago Indigenous’ Education) • The increasing recognition and support nationwide from public in general and government, on indigenous education system that has led to the establishment of 46 Indigenous Schools in Indonesia by indigenous youth. This has encourage AMAN to establish Yayasan Pendidikan Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (YPMAN - The Foundation for The Archipelago Indigenous’ Education). • The YPMAN is the Autonomous Body of AMAN. • The YPMAN Supports the realization of The Archipelago Indigenous Youth Front (BPAN)’s mission on Indigenous Youth Homecoming Movement. • YPMAN also organize the ethnography data and the maps resulted from community Mapping for Indigenous Schools teaching materials. • YPMAN conducted Capacity Building for Indigenous Youth who are willing to establish Indigenous Schools, by conducting trainings and exchange. • YPMAN develop Indigenous Schools teaching methodology together with the youth and the elders. • YPMAN also mandated to prepare the establishment of Indigenous Higher Education

9. AMAN Member Communities : 2,366 Indigenous Communities • Total Population : ± 19 Millions

10. “TERIMAKASIH”