Sungai sebagai Ruang Hidup: Profil Pastoral dan Sosial-Budaya Masyarakat Dayak Krio di Ketapang, Kalimantan Barat

Abstract

The Krio River functions as a living space that connects settlement, kinship, customary practices, subsistence, ecology, and Catholic pastoral life among the Dayak Krio in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. This article aims to describe the socio-cultural profile and pastoral network along the Krio River and to formulate contextual pastoral recommendations. The study uses a qualitative descriptive approach through document analysis and reflective interpretation of pastoral experience. Sources include official statistics, customary-territory profiles, parish records, and recent studies on Dayak Krio culture and ecology. The findings indicate four pastoral zones downstream, middle, the Menyumbung pastoral centre, and upstream/Bengaras each marked by different accessibility, cultural, and pastoral characteristics. Eight strategic challenges emerge: distance, transportation, youth mobility, education, cultural preservation, ecology, lay leadership formation, and the relationship between customary practice and faith. Dialogue with Thomas Berry, Laudato Si’, and the theology of inculturation shows that pastoral planning should begin from the community’s lived ecology rather than from administrative boundaries alone. The article therefore recommends a five-pillar pastoral framework: faith, family, youth, culture, and ecology, supported by culture-listening and stronger local leadership.