Indigenous knowledge dataset of Dayak, Malay and Chinese communities in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract

The dataset in this article presents indigenous knowledge of Dayak, Malay, and Chinese ethnic communities in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Data was collected by involving three categories of main informants, namely community leaders, the main actors directly involved in indigenous knowledge of their tribe. Key informants are community leaders referred to as leaders or elders in their tribe's indigenous knowledge. They are recommended informants, namely the general Dayak, Malay, and Chinese, who know and maintain indigenous knowledge of their tribes. Research instruments were used to obtain data using open interview sheets, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The data was collected to screen local content owned by Dayak, Malay, and Chinese communities in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, that have the value of local wisdom. The urgency of data collection is to document indigenous knowledge to preserve local communities' culture.

Keywords

• Indigenous ethnicity
• Local people
• Local wisdom
• Local content