The story of a great Iban longhouse and its rice-growing landscape that were submerged beneath the waters of the Batang Ai Dam in Sarawak. In 1973, the great longhouse at Nanga Jela stood high above the Engkari River, a tributary of the upper Batang Ai in Sarawak. The 38 Iban families who lived there practiced a multi-staged form of agriculture , cultivating 67 varieties of rice, 11 varieties of glutinous rice and other crops. The rocks, hills, streams, and swampy places of Nanga Jela made up parts of a complex, human-shaped landscape that was also a living history, a book of tradition, a source of identity, and a representation of social relations. The stories written into this landscape matched and complemented the people’s great songs, epics, and genealogies. In 1985, this landscape disappeared beneath the waters of the Batang Ai Hydroelectric Dam. Return to Nanga Jela offers a glimpse of a moment in the past of a landscape, a longhouse, and a distinctive way of life that has vanished. Dalam taun 1973, bediri siti rumah panjai ti’ temegah, Nanga Jela, ke dientak ke ba dalam Sungai Engkari, pati’ ulu Batang Ai, Sarawak. Bisi 38 ruang bilik Iban ke diau ditu ngemeranka chara betanam betupi mayuh renggat, betanamka 67 bansa padi enggau 11 bansa padi pulut. Batu, bukit, sungai, enggau menoa ke bepaya’’ di Nanga Jela nyadi rampa menua ti kompleks, betukuh mensia ti mega nyadi sejarah idup, bup tradisyen, pun penatai identiti enggau pengari kaul rama. Cherita ti ditulis ngagai rampa menua tu setipak sereta nangkup lagu, epik, enggau turun temurun rayat ti besai. Dalam taun 1985, rampa menua tu lenyau ba baruh (dilamun) ai Tekat Hidroelektrik Batang Ai. Pemulai ke Nanga Jela meri ke pemulai pengingat lama tentang rampa menua, rumah panjai, enggau chara pengidup ti berega ti udah lenyau.