Environmental Knolwledge and Deterioration Factors on Natural Resource Management: A Geographical Perespective Study on Indigenist’s Communities in Indonesia and Malaysia

Introduction: The indigenist’s community’s environmental knowledge level about natural resource management is a powerful tool for meeting environmental objectives and promoting sustainable environmental development. The government, NGO, leaders and academia explores play a main role to guide the indigenist’s communities to improve environmental performance by collaborations among them. Objective: The purpose of this study to evaluate the environmental knowledge and environment deterioration factors on natural resource management n indigenist’s settlements in West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Hulu Selangor, Malaysia. Research Methodology: There are a few statistical analyses applied in this study such as Discriminant Analysis (DA), Descriptive Analysis and Hypothesis Testing (Two-sample t-test). The primary data collected by distribute the randomly questionnaires to 200 respondents among indigenist’s communities in four locations (Perkampungan Orang Asli Saham (Saham), Perkampungan Orang Asli Pahuman (Sengah Temila), Perkampungan Orang Asli Mandor and Perkampungan Orang Asli Serendah). Result and Discussion: From the result showed almost respondents from Indonesia and Malaysia agree with the of implementation planning in natural resource management based on their environmental knowledge levels (the significant level between questions SA1, SA2, SA3, SA4, SA5 and SB1, SB2, SB4 and SB5 (p-values< 0.05)). Then, the statistical analysis of deterioration factors on natural resource in indigenist’s community’s settlement showed there are slightly difference opinion among respondents caused by the different environmental factors between indigenist’s villages in Indonesia and Malaysia (the significant level of question SA7, SA8, SA9, SA10, SA11, SA12, SA13 and SA15 (p-values< 0.05)). Conclusion: The systematically and continuously of natural resource management could contribute to control and improve the growing natural resource problems of the environmental degradation, and ecological destruction.