Harimau Tandang

And today we're heading into Sumatra's shrinking forests, where a very, very old relationship between humans and animals, in this case tigers, is being rewritten in real time.

For generations, communities living alongside these Sumatran tigers have understood them through different registers, as guardians, or as jadi-jadian, or were-tigers, who are former humans, or as harimau tandang, or as outsider tigers.

But as logging, palm oil, and industrial plantations fragment the forests, those old categories are having to do new work.

Our guest today is Imam Ardianto, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Universitas Indonesia.

So it's a zoonotic transfer of viruses.

It's The result is, of course, this changing moral relations.

And the tiger elsewhere is, or Harimau Tandang, or what they call Harimau Tandang, is becoming one of the particular register to understand this moral relation with tigers.

And because you mentioned Harimau