Currently, the Mondulkiri Indigenous Peoples Association for Development (MIPAD), which has been supported by Plan International Cambodia, is carrying out its activities within the framework of the project “Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation of Communities indigenous people in Mondulkiri “. In this regard, MIPAD has sent a project team to study and research the history of textile weaving and weaving equipment of the Bunong ethnic minority group for more research papers. In addition, the association has formed a group of weavers, mostly women, and has received training in weaving skills in addition to the weaving skills that they had acquired from their ancestors. And this work is in addition to agricultural work that has been affected by climate change.

The textile weaving of the Bu nong ethnic minority can weave scarves (the Kama, the language of Bunong), blankets, band widths (Yus), handkerchiefs and handbags. The weaving process is similar in size to size, while the style is not as easy as it is different in its production. The weaving process is long or short, depending on the production of various materials in large or small size. Usually knitting a 20 × 180, 20 × 200, 25 × 180, 25 × 200 scarf takes 4 days and is used for all events. A skirt with red and black colors, and along with some signs such as vegetables, seeds, pigeon egg, size 50 × 200, 60 × 200 takes 60 days and according to the routine, it takes 1 year. In addition, it was used in the wedding in which the groom’s family offers to the bride’s family, and then they use it to cover the head of buffalo that they already killed and used in the ceremony as souvenirs and objects. After the ceremony, the mother of the bride can use it as a blanket or skirt. A black and white bandwidth, consisting of the signs of humans, trees, mountains, buffalo, cows, and Pythagorean scratches; size 50 × 200, 60 × 200, 70 × 200, takes about 90 days, traditionally takes 1 year and 3 months, and is used for the same ceremony as scarves. A small bandwidth can exchange a small buffalo, a cow or a goat. A blanket of red, black and white, consisting of signs such as a stream, houses, humans and mountains the size of 250 × 300, 250 × 400, takes 180 days; traditionally it takes two years. In the past, the indigenous Bunong people wove only when they could not engage in agriculture. As a result, Bunong weaving is time consuming and the weaving result is really valuable to them.

Because of its color, it was originally white, black, and red. To get a black color, Bunong collects small (non-specific) trees and grinds those trees to receive black ink. Once they received it, they mixed black ink with cotton thread to make black cotton. For red, they traditionally used fruits that were shaped like rambutan, and they made it as a red liquid and then mixed with cotton to turn red. Indigenous people, Bunong, popularly plant cotton for the purpose of their weaving culture.

In Bunong weaving culture, all weavers must have enough equipment before they can weave, and they are all Kei (Nak Cha, Bunong language) and Hong. And Weaving and Design (Korm), there are designs that can be noticed that it comes from the ancient Bunong indigenous community, such as: kitchen, Kaisna, arrow, guord, human, tiger nose, python, cucumber seed, pigeons, snake , Spider. nest, worm eyes, mountain, streams, person holding hands, walking trail, large silver water beetle, wasp, grasshopper, tiger jumbo, mosquito, trees, waterfalls, wild stream rabbit, pumpkin, rice. Each of the designs represented: Arrow and Kaisna represent the hunting of the indigenous peoples (Bunong). The kitchen represents the place of food. The python, the snake image, the tiger nose image, and the large silver water beetle image represent fierce wildlife. The images of guord, cucumber, pumpkin and rice represent the planting of crops. The images of a waterfall, wildlife, stream, mountain and water represent the livelihood landscape of the ethnic minority, Bunong. Rabbits represent wise and intelligent people. Creating design is making fabrics look more attractive and beautiful. In that, the use of color also has its meaning, since color is the emblem of the hot element. Light colors are the cool element that refers to the beauty of nature and natural refreshing. As a result, they look beautiful in Bunong’s weaving culture, as well as the design of each textile.

Nowadays, the weaving culture of the indigenous Bunong peoples in Cambodia has not been interested in the people, as until now, many of them focus only on agriculture and pay very less attention and less time practicing weaving skills. that their ancestors left behind. Due to climate change, agriculture, as well as the cultivation of the plant, have been seriously affected and the family situation of the indigenous people, Bunong, has been threatened in their lives. Therefore, the Mondulkiri Indigenous Peoples Association for Development, with the support of Plan International Cambodia, has endeavored to provide training in agriculture, seed selection, plant protection, planting techniques, as well as studying the tradition weaving and provide them with additional skills in order to earn additional income beyond farming or farming.