The Forest Cultural Heritage in The East Coast Sumatra

Abstract

The East Coast Sumatra have vast forest begin north of Aceh to Jambi area in the south. The other places have vast forest in Riau and North Sumatra. The forest was rich with various tree likes medicine tree, wood, and others. The tradisional peoples depend the forest to primer need and believe that forest have power to help us. The interest question is the cultural heritage of forest in the east coast Sumatra. Second, how the goverment and non government manage it to cultural heritage that important to young generation. The article is made by written data likes news data, report and goverment data. The result is in East Coast Sumatra the forest cultural heritage have not been manage by formal government and non. Whereas it is specific. Many heritage from peoples that life in forest likes, art traditional, ceremony and food and other. To manage the cultural heritage needs the forest museum that it can show the rich collection from the east coast Sumatra. In main aim is to educated and build young generation that how important forest to our life.