The latter are available all year round and less prone to diseases than cultivated ones. It is a stable, continuous and reliable source of food. The people collect wild products themselves or obtain them through exchanges. None are bought. Sago starch is kept for a month and the pancakes for several years, and the kenari nut is also kept in vast quantities.
Meat is dried for several weeks and kept away from the rats.
These foodstuffs are not kept to palliate a seasonal shortage which does not exist, but for the big ceremonies. Traditional medicine Healers have a good reputation and they use many forest products. There are inventories of the plants they use but no chemical analyses. The markets for these products are recent. Teaching is carried out in Indonesian, the national language.