Uhang Pandak: The Indonesian Hobbits

Shabbier than human, smarter than the cleverest apes orangutan and chimpanzee. The Kerinci people called it uhang pandak, a Sumatran wildman. In Bahasa, it means “the short man”. Uhang pandak had some times been caught in the Kerinci Seblat National Park. Meet the Anak Dalam tribes (literary means “children of the inner-forest”), a.k.a. Orang Kubu, a.k.a. Orang Rimba, a.k.a Orang Batin Simbilan. They are nomadic tribes who have traditionally lived throughout the lowland forests of Jambi and South Sumatra. Anak Dalam tribe and Uhang pandak has been a co-inhabitant in the forest for centuries. So, if you examine to the deep forest of Kerinci, you may at the end found some villager or tribe member who witnessed uhang pandak once or twice. Mostly, the witnesses saw them as: 80-130 cm tall. Covered in short, grey to brown fur. Divergent big toe, separated from other toes as a thumb is from the other fingers. Ground dwelling, not arboreal. Walk in two legs. Maybe omnivorous like any other apes or hominid, as sometimes they sought the corns, potatoes, fruits, ginger roots, sometimes insects and river crabs. But the testimony of witness didn’t come from local tribes only. The crypto creature has purportedly [...]