Traditional Climate and Environment Forecasting Based on Local Knowledge of Urug Societies in Bogor West Java

Abstrak

The aim of this research to find out about Indigenous of Knowledge Urug Community for forecasting climate and environment dynamic toward community resilience. The research method used is the ethnographic approach or cultural anthropology. Ethnography is sorts of qualitative research that need observation, documentary and interview in local societies. Ethnographic deal with discovers about description about culture including local knowledge, behaviour, cultural, ritual, traditional ceremonies, and language of Urug community. The selection of sample as informant exert purposive sampling technique. The result is probed meticulously through triangulation technique and triangulation sources. The result shows that the Indigenous community have implemented the sort of Traditional and calendar years with animals symbol for forecasting season and climate. The community can adapt season and climate dynamic and create community resilience for environment and climate. Besides that, there is the connection of planting local paddy to attaint community resilience including environmental change, cultural and social resilience.