‘Punan Batu’ is the last tribe in Borneo, Indonesia that still apply the prehistoric way of life by hunting and gathering in the jungle. This is Sandi and his family, members of the Punan Batu tribe. They are collecting forest fruits for their comsumption. Where there are forests with fruits and honey… I will head there and get to the trees. I will spend the night in a hut. I will stay for a week and keep moving around… until the honey season ends… and the season change into fruit season. What I’m having here is ‘Torai’ fruit. The fruit tastes, for us, Punan people… it tastes very peculiar in a good way, we call it ‘manyak’ in Indonesian it means delicious. What the forest means to you and Punan Batu people? The life of Punan… is the forest. if the forest is gone, we are in danger. Their livelihood is slowly disappearing… as some of the forest has turned into plantations. When this place was still a forest… I collected fruits and hunted deers. Now we can’t hunter and gather anymore. Because the land is now ruled by the palm oil plantations owned by ‘outsiders.’ Punan Batu tribe that consist of less than 100 people… is facing an extinction. My children and nephews and nieces are... not formally educated… and no one goes to school. So, none of us can find jobs outside of the forest. Where should my children, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren find food… if the forest is cleared by the outsiders? Without formal education and farming skills… now they are relying a lot on getting… consumable products in the city. Their need for basics is not balanced by their income. They have to be in debt to the local shops to survive. Punan Batu: Stay in the forest or fight against the times Bulungan, North Kalimantan The journey to reach the location where Punan Batu lives… had to be taken by a boat down the Sajau River. They live in the forest of Benau Mountain… a remote area that isn’t covered by cell reception. Punan Batu has been living for thousands of years in Borneo… as a hunter and gatherer, without ever been farming. ‘Batu,’ means stone in Indonesian, is part of their identity… because they live under rocks or caves in the forest. They only stay for eight to nine days in one cave or hut. They will move places according to the availability of fruits and preys. We move around.