Sri Gumum
Sri Gumum          Making a Living
Peter A. van der Helm

  work  
Gathering rattan in the forest, while staying in shelters along old logging tracks.
Tapping rubber in a kebun getah.

Making canoos and paddles to go fishing.
The "path" to an alur (lake tributary), a place for bathing and washing.
                
Clearing land (in 2001) to plant palm oil trees (kelapa sawit) for steady revenues. 
Discussing (in 2005) an EC/UNDP funded project to grow herbs and menkuang (long grassy leaves used for handicrafts); this evolved into a herbal processing facility.