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This Nature reflection under concept of Islam is connection of people with nature that is determined by religious understanding influences culture heritage, nature condition and believe that interact in natural resources management arena. It clearly appear in cases of pervious research of ‘Articulation of Islamic values toward sustainability of natural resources management” a cases study of Sungai Pisang community, West Sumatra (Nurza, unpublished research 2007) that showed, how Islamic values endorse the natural resources sustainability through Islamic theological principles. The values are Tawhid (oneness), Mizan (balance), and Adl (justice) through three level of human-ecological interaction. Those are individual behavior, institutional role and local commitment agreement (individual-institutional interaction). Human-ecological connection is commonly named eco-people (Jyothi & M. C. Raj 2005: 10) that has unique understanding in term of developing meaning. The result of this connection has nature consequences such as sustainability nature that addressed nature as scared object.The concept of eco-religion emerges on practicing of forbidden area that is exist in Batang Gadis forest in North Sumatra, forbidden fish in West Sumatra, forbidden coral reef in Celebes. The interpretation of Malay people which passed administrative territory of countries that culturally share and spread out in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippine. However, the capacity that attached to Malay people as eco-people, where ecologically developed the strong connection among these community toward nature. (Google+)

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