The Dayak Customary Councils are Indigenous governance institutions of the Dayak peoples of Borneo, operating through adat (customary law) to regulate land use, forest management, conflict resolution, and communal life. Decision-making is collective and consensus-based, rooted in ancestral authority and territorial stewardship. These councils play a central role in defending communal forests against extractivism, sustaining biodiversity, and preserving social cohesion across villages, constituting a living system of non-state democratic governance.
| Creation date | -1000 |
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| Topics | Commons, Ancestral Knowledge, Biodiversity, Land Use, Environmental justice |
| Context | Rural |
| Typology | Cultural Sovereignty |
| Languages | ⧼rv-language-day⧽ |
| Thematics | Radical Democracy |