Bedouin Residents Have 8.000 Lumbung Food Reserves, Not Affected By El Nino

The Bedouin community in the interior of Lebak Regency, Banten has food reserves of 8,000 barns or "leuit" to store grain from Huma harvest, thus fulfilling food availability. ANTARA/Mansur

JAKARTA - The Bedouin community in the interior of Lebak Regency, Banten has food reserves of 8,000 barns or "leuit" to store Huma harvest unhulled rice, so that it meets food availability and is not affected by El Nino.

"We Badui people have never been threatened with food insecurity or hunger," said Kanekes Village Head Leuwidamar District, Lebak Jaro Saija Regency, at his residence as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 29.

The Baduy community has long since until now owned food sovereignty, because it has the ability to store grain from the harvest.

It is estimated that the number of barns available is 8,000 leuits from 4,000 families with a population of 13,309 people.

Of the 8,000 food barns, if the average is three tons/lumbung, so the total amount is 24 thousand tons of unhulled rice.

"We believe that the food stock in the barn can be used as food for families if they are attacked by pests or natural disasters," he explained.

According to him, the Bedouin people since their ancestors had a strong food defense by storing the yield of Huma grain to a barn located behind the settlements.

The embankment is made of the roof of the ijuk and the walls of the bamboo booth and laban wood, so the rats cannot eat the grain.

In that barn, the unhulled rice can last decades in good condition.

So far, said Jaro Saija, the Bedouin people have never experienced hunger because they have the barn defense.

"We ensure that the climate impact of El Nino, the Bedouin community, is met with local food availability," he emphasized.

Kubil (45), a Bedouin resident, admitted that his food barn contained three tons of huma harvest for five years.

Until now, unhulled rice is in the barn as food reserves in the event of bankruptcy, such as crop failure due to drought or disaster.

"We can still buy rice at this time, even though we have food reserves," he explained.

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Head of the Production Division of the Lebak Regency Agriculture Service, Deni Iskandar, said that so far the Badui community's food reserves are relatively safe and there has been no food vulnerability.

They have food reserves for indigenous peoples, 8,000 granaries by storing an average of three tons/lumbung of grain.

"We see the food supplies of the Bedouin community are relatively safe and every harvest they store in the barn and are not sold," he said.