question about native people in a jungle

Uninhabited island with fresh water and jungle growth... or one visited only occasionally by locals. And one that falls under the sovereignty of some nation that has a modicum of respect for human life, human rights, and rule of law. Even then, you're taking a chance.

You were born at least a century too late. Everything is claimed by someone, owned by someone, falls under someone's law enforcement/political/military jurisdiction, or is home territory to a variety of tribes, poachers, prospectors, hunters, miners, petroleum companies, wood & pulp industries, fishers, naturalists, anthropologists, WWII Japanese straggler soldiers, left over mine fields, drug growers & cartels, cannibals, head hunters, heavily armed guerrilla/insurgent forces, bandits, pirates, smugglers, warlords, billionaires with private security forces, government installations, national park police forces, etc.

Not to mention a lot of free spirits like you who've got the same idea.

Not to mention exotic tropical diseases for which you have no natural immunity or native born toughness (in some tropical locales of Africa or South America).

Not to mention tropical hurricanes or typhoons (depending on which hemisphere you choose).

Look in the Indian Ocean, Costa Rica, Micronesia, parts of the non-Muslim Philippines, and some of the safer parts of the Carribean (like the US or UK Virgin Islands). Places like Panama & Nicaragua are viable as far as tough jungle hideouts in relatively peaceful environs, but the locals traipse through those triple canopy forests like they're in their back yard.

The remote highlands of Vietnam/Laos would be another possibility. But you'd need to convince the Communist government visa/entry people to allow you to go there, then be able to assuage the heavily armed tribal masters of the Golden Triangle that you're not a threat to their opium livelihood. Same with Myanmar (Burma). In Borneo, you'd probably wind up with your skull hanging in someone's jungle lodge house.

Maybe Indonesia or Malaysia.

Author Daniel Defoe's fictional jungle island castaway (Robinson Crusoe) had people problems some three centuries ago. It's only gotten worse since he published the tale in 1719. You should read that novel.

As to where you're least likely to die in a jungle location...

Either a resort (where you could get a job) or a theme park (where you could squat and forage food from restaurant dumpsters). I'd stay away from Disney properties. Too much security, too much corporate culture, not much jungle, and they have Alligators in their ponds...

The short answer to your quest is that there is almost no place for the solo hermit who arrives from the outside world. Instead, you need to move in with indigenous jungle cultures and assimilate. Live in that culture and become accepted. If you can do that, you'll eventually come into local knowledge of a place to go for personal isolation. At that point, the locals will help you get there and set up. Then leave you alone.

Good luck.

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question about native people in a jungle