Change and indigenous agroforestry in East Kalimantan [Part II]

This section is essentially an account of the differences that result when the third element, commerce, is introduced. To understand the changes and their impacts, we must first examine the system by which goods and food are produced and aquired in Long Ampung, in the virtual absence of commerce. The crux or core of the economic system is a form of agroforestry composed of at least two important components:

1. a ricefield and its gradual transition back to (and including) primary forest, and
2. a number of special purpose plots that for one reason or another do not appear to be involved in the "normal" forest succession process. (author)