Relying on the King
Sunday, May 22, 2022
For hundreds of years indigenous communities of Holbung Sitio-tio have been managing their customary lands. People are prohibited from carelessly cutting down trees in the forests.
IN Cosmas Siringo-ringo’s belief, the civilization built by his ancestors predates the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. The elder of the Holbung Sitio-tio indigenous people believes that he is a 10th generation resident of Holbung village in Samosir Regency, North Sumatra.
He told that the spatial planning in Holbung Sitio-tio is inseparable from the history of their ancestors. “It began from the grandchildren of Siraja Lo
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