Biocultural Conservation-based Narrative Text: An Effort to Enhance Conservation Literacy of the Local Community in the Sanctuary Area.

The objective of this research is to increase awareness about conservation among the residents of Pematang Gadung Village in the sanctuary region of Ketapang Regency, West Borneo. This will be achieved by employing a biocultural conservation approach through narrative texts, with the goal of addressing environmental issues like illegal logging, poaching, and mining. The research and development process is divided into three stages based on the Successive Approximation Model (SAM): preparation, iterative design, and iterative development. This work focuses primarily on the iterative design phase, expanding on the findings of the research completed in the first year, when the local people perceived forests as commodities due to their lack of conservation literacy. Their biocultural conservation, on the other hand, was profoundly based on indigenous Muslim Malay ethnic beliefs and traditions. The present study seeks to develop a narrative text based on biocultural conservation as an initial effort to create conservation material that aligns with the local wisdom of the community, utilizing a biocultural approach involving 12 students from middle and high schools in Pematang Gadung, West Kalimantan. The findings of this research include the emergence of awareness among respondents regarding the importance of conservation and an improvement in the creative writing skills of the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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