This study aims to reveal the cultural ecology represented in Yonathan Rahardjo’s novel Lanang. This novel was chosen because it is full of representations of cultural ecology in the millen-nial era. The discussion of cultural ecology cannot be separated from the relationship between culture, humans, and the environment. This study uses a cultural ecology approach. The data are textual units containing the discourse of cultural ecology. The results of this study indicate that there are dynamics in cultural ecology described through human actions in need fulfillment, namely traditionally and modernly. Selecting one of these methods will give birth to inequality to the environment. Both methods must go hand in hand to achieve the ideal cultural ecology.