Gunung Butak

Mount Butak is a mountain that is rarely touched by the community because it is too far from residential areas. The peak of this mountain is not covered with large trees or vegetation, but only has undergrowth and shrubs.

There are several rivers on Mount Butak, such as the Ciparasi, Cipadali, Cipicung, and Cilejet rivers. These rivers serve as a water source for the community. Mount Butak is included in the area of cover and trust. Cover is a forest area that has several springs and is located upstream of the river. In this area, there are no activities and it is protected by the community as a source of livelihood, while trust is an area inherited by the elders for the welfare of their descendants. In this trust area, there are areas that can be cultivated by the community and there are also areas reserved for future generations. Within this area, there are forests, gardens, and rice fields.

Mount Butak is a jungle or dense forest dominated by large trees, dark and humid with varied slopes. The soil is dry and tends to be moist. One type of wood found on Mount Butak includes rasalama wood, ki anak, ki awi, panglar, ki hujan, and ironwood, etc. The fauna found on Mount Butak includes wild boars, long-tailed monkeys, kasintu (female jungle fowl), cangegar (male jungle fowl), muka (slow loris), perusing (pangolin), porcupines, peucang (muntjac), mencek (deer), uweg (Javan gibbon), Javan eagle, squirrels, surili, civets, oray (python), cobras, spectacled birds, quails, kutilang birds, kureuw birds, julang (a type of hornbill), buweuk (owl), kahkeh birds, manuk hurang (kingfisher), koleangkak (bido snake eagle), saeran birds, dudut birds, coladi birds, suluh-cutting birds, sparrows, and cipeuw birds. The plants found on Mount Butak include puspa trees, rasamala, jeret, kali morot, angrit, kidego, putat, kianak, pasang, kiawi, kibeusi, kikawat, kibuluh, renyung, jurang, kawoyang, various types of huru (stone, madang, oil, leueur, gemblung, sintok, hiris, sereh, hejo, carulang, etc.), teureup, kibengang, dadap, picung, gintung, ceuri, kibancet, ganggaeng, rubber trees, baros, kisawo, kihiang, kibima, laka, kimokla, panglar, and ciung coconut.

In addition, Mount Butak also has several important points that are sacred to the Kasepuhan Kampung Bongkok community, such as the koronong stone, badak gathering place, cepak cimagrib, bedil stone site, sacred graves of lebak picung, sacred graves of lebak kubang, sacred graves of cepak maghrib, and cisalada, which is a type of water lettuce protected by the community, which can be harvested but not removed.

There are currently no specific regulations governing the recognition of the customary territory of Kasepuhan Kampung Bongkok. However, the youth of Kasepuhan Kampung Bongkok are working to have Kasepuhan Kampung Bongkok registered in the Regional Regulation of Lebak Regency Number 5 of 2018.