Well they should look at their own sea gypsies - bajau people, how they live and lived in the past. Its wonderful to experience them and also read upon their history - in the past they had literal floating villages, migrating with seasonal currents, in complete tune with their environment.
In 50s IIRC forming government forced them to have stationary location/address, so they stubbornly agreed but still have all houses rising from the ocean on pillars, just anchored to some rocky cliff.
I love visiting that country, so vast, so diverse, so exotic to common western reality.
The problem is, Indonesia is so diverse. Bajau people and the Javanese (the ones discussed in the article) have nothing in similar in their way of life.
Asking Javanese to learn from Bajau people is like asking ordinary Americans to learn from the Inuit, just because they happen to be citizen of same nation state.
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Well they should look at their own sea gypsies - bajau people, how they live and lived in the past. Its wonderful to experience them and also read upon their history - in the past they had literal floating villages, migrating with seasonal currents, in complete tune with their environment.
In 50s IIRC forming government forced them to have stationary location/address, so they stubbornly agreed but still have all houses rising from the ocean on pillars, just anchored to some rocky cliff.
I love visiting that country, so vast, so diverse, so exotic to common western reality.
The problem is, Indonesia is so diverse. Bajau people and the Javanese (the ones discussed in the article) have nothing in similar in their way of life.
Asking Javanese to learn from Bajau people is like asking ordinary Americans to learn from the Inuit, just because they happen to be citizen of same nation state.
I looked it up and it's quite fascinating indeed but I cannot stop thinking about sanitary challenges...