CURRICULUM: 5 C’s

• Community Capacity: Engage local communities in a process where the SDG goals set by the United Nations turn into meaningful projects that are locally relevant and collaboratively implemented by the communities themselves. Increase the local capacity for sustainable development with the integration of local institutions. Participants can strengthen the capacity of Indigenous communities to participate in the conservation management of resources. 
• Climate Change: Respond to climate change by practicing and using indigenous and traditional methods for hands on design and implementation. Indigenous Knowledge is inextricably linked to global sustainability. Our planet is facing ecological crises as a result of globalization. Indigenous peoples throughout the world have sustained their unique worldviews and associated knowledge systems for milennia, even while undergoing major social changes as a result of transformative forces beyond their control. They have valuable insights to implementing efficient uses of our land and spiritual relationships with nature. Many of the core values, beliefs and practices associated with those worldviews have survived and are beginning to be recognized as having an adaptive integrity that is as valid for today’s generation as it was for generations past.
• Culture: specifically social permaculture; working with nature rather than against it. Emphasis on the indigenous origins of permaculture concepts looking at culturally relevant perspectives of how to use holistic design systems to be sustainable and regenerative.
• Circular: From Linear to Circular design: Initiate, Ideate, Implement. Indigenous Knowledge can help foster equitable management of resources and learn how to be responsible and economical with our natural resources, and to care to minimize our ecological footprint. Indigenous Knowledge will help participants to understand how to protect land, water, and natural resources. Indigenous Knowledge and Western Knowledge can be taught together. The philosophies, beliefs, and spirituality do not need to be taught in opposition, or in isolation. It is only when we can teach our participants to understand themselves and the world around them, that we can create true empathy, understanding, and hope for the future of our planet.
• Collaboration: with Indigenous Peoples: Indigenous Knowledge offers lessons that can benefit everyone, as we search for a more satisfying and sustainable way to live on this planet. Throughout Indonesia there are many different cultures with vast sums of knowledge in it. Science, wisdom and technology, knowledge that is vanishing rapidly. Mother Jungle makes the effort to not forget the wisdom and to keep ancestral voices alive by recording indigenous wisdom and traditions of the Mothers of the Jungle. It will take elders voices to call the world into balance. They could synthesize patterns in nature using the rising and setting of stars, the sequence and direction of waves, the flight patterns of birds. Nature helps them navigate with the keenest accuracy. Gathering explicit data was always done through their entire body. They have trained their “eyes and ears,” providing early warnings of change. Their achievements, intellectually and scientifically are extraordinary. This is part of our collective narrative, it’s Humanity’s DNA, we can not afford to lose it.