Daily Life of Indigenous People in Takok Chrai Village; Ratanakiri

By Forng Champei; citizen journalist in Ratanakiri province


I would like to tell story about the community where I live. I would like to brief about the livelihood of indigenous people in my community.

Usually for women and children always go to the field every day. In my community, farmers engaged in agriculture. They have the fields for planting crops such as potatoes, beans, rice, and cashew​ trees, which are not characterized as a large scale.

For men, sometimes they go to the Chamkar and help their wives there. Their regular jobs is to go to the forest and logging good and priced timbers for sale. When they have the money from the sale of timber, they spend the money for buying wine, playing snooker and going karaoke.

In addition to the mentioned above, I also noticed the breakage of this community because of sale of land or I can say land grab for sale. Before, when there was a traditional festivals only Gong is played by the community. They helped each other in the community to help organize the event, both energy and material.

In contrast, often there is attack each other, when there is any festivity; and the neighbor won't join the festivity, unless there is music player.