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coconut, and palm trees. Plants as sources of protein include soya, green beans, and other
kinds of beans. Meanwhile, plants as the sources of vitamins are vegetables.

Clothing
Bio natural resources used in daily lives as materials for clothing or cloth, including hemp,
the basic material of rayon, cotton, the basic material of cotton, and sisal which is the
basic material of linen. With technological advancements, raw materials from plants for
producing cloth can now also be obtained from pineapple and banana and other plants
which have a high cellulose content.
Cloth made from plants is valuable because of ease of production and treatment. It also
possesses desirable characteristics: strength, wrinkle resistance, and ironing free.

Limestone formations in a
cave used as shelter by early
humans

Map of limestone cave locations in Indonesia used as
shelter. (source: Indonesian Speology)

Food and Shelter
Produce from the forest and the sea are very much needed in the modern life. Indonesia’s
natural resources, being in a tropical area, abundantly provide this need. It also includes
the influence in ways to hunt animals and go fishing.
Early humans first made use of natural features such as caves as places to stay.
Limestone caves were one of the most important natural formations used as shelter. There
are many limestone caves in Indonesia for which there is evidence of use as shelters by

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