(ID)Entity: Reimagining the Batak Tribe Community through

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory of Development

Settled at Barangay Tanabag in Puerto Prince-

sa (1880) are the Batak people, a group of in-
digenous peoples who, for centuries, have
combined a hunting-gathering lifestyle with a
slash and burn farming method, as well as trad-
ing. They strove to supplement their income by
harvesting and trading non-timber forest prod-
ucts. In the early 1900s, there were around
600 of them. During the 70s, there were almost
400 of them. Now they're down to about 300-
they are slowly disappearing. Today, the Batak
are threatened by conservation schemes by the
government. The small Batak population means
young people are forced to marry either a lo-
cal of Palawan or someone from another tribe.
The people suffer from health issues, mainly
malnutrition and diarrhea, and they also have
a poor literacy rate—the highest educational
attainment of any member of the Batak tribe is
still 6th Grade. In this study, the researcher
plans a community for the Batak by understand-
ing their ecological development.

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Ar. Erika Vixeen H. Dia