Indigenous knowledge dataset of Dayak, Malay and Chinese communities in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The dataset in this article presents indigenous knowledge of Dayak, Malay, and Chinese ethnic communities in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Data was collected by involving three categories of main informants, namely community leaders, the main actors directly involved in indigenous knowledge of their tribe. Key informants are community leaders referred to as leaders or elders in their tribe's indigenous knowledge.