REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION ISSN: 2146-0353 ● © RIGEO ● 11(1), MARCH, 2021 www.rigeo.org Research Article Environmental Knolwledge and Deterioration Factors on Natural Resource Management: A Geographical Perespective Study on Indigenist’s Communities in Indonesia and Malaysia Mohd Haizam Saudi1 Pitalis Mawardi Baging2 Widyatama University, Bandung, Indonesia Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin3 Ahmad Shakir Mohd Saudi4 Geography Study Program IKIP PGRI Pontianak, Jl. Ampera No 88, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia Pontianak, Provinsi Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia Noorjima Abd Wahab5 Mohd Ekhwan toriman6 Universiti Kuala Lumpur, 43650, Bangi, Selangor Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Khairul Nizam Maulud7 Firdaus Mohamad Hamzah8 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Nurul Shafini Shafurdin9 Nur Lli Hasmida Binti Mustaffa10 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia 1 Corresponding Author Email:
[email protected] Abstract 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