The Jambi administration has established a location for the future settlement of Jambi's indigenous people to help improve the community's livelihood as ordered by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, officials said on Thursday.

Jambi's acting governor, Irman, said that as many as 200 families of the nomadic Anak Dalam tribe, commonly known as the Orang Rimba, in Sarolangun regency would receive 2,500 hectares of land in the production forest.

"The Jambi and Sarolangun administrations are finalizing the plan," he said on Thursday.

Sarolangun regent Cek Endra said that the program was to be completed next year.

Irman said that the administration had previously built houses for the tribe in Sarolangun, but they refused to move into them because they were attached to each other.

Therefore, the provincial and local administrations looked for a larger area that could be serve both as residential and farm land.

"The location is in the production forest area and the responsibility is under the Environment and Forestry Minister," he said.

During a visit to the area in October, President Jokowi offered houses to the Orang Rimba tribe living in Jambi's forest who were being badly affected by Indonesia's worst forest and peatland fires.

Representatives of the tribe agreed to relocate to the houses as long as they were given land to farm for their livelihood.

Tempo.co reported that there are around 1,700 people of the Anak Dalam tribe living in the Bukit Duabelas National Park. They are all spread out and divided into several groups. (rin)(+)

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