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Central Kalimantan Province

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Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Kalimantan Tengah, propinsi (or provinsi ; province), south-central Borneo, Indonesia, bounded by the provinces of East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur) to the north and northeast and South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) to the southeast, by the Java Sea to the south, and by the province of West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat) to the west. The capital is Palangka Raya, in the southeast-central part of the province. The Schwaner Mountains and the Muller (Müller) Mountains run parallel to the northwestern boundary of the province, and an offshoot of the Muller range skirts the northern boundary. Mount Raya, the highest peak in the Schwaner range, reaches 7,474 feet (2,278 metres). To the south of these mountains lies an expanse of alluvial plain that constitutes the central and southern parts of the province. The southern coastal lowlands are covered with wide swamp belts intersected by estuaries formed by the southward-flowing Lamandau, Arut, Seruyan, Katin...
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The Legend of Sangi, The Hunter of Mahoroi

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A long time ago in Central Kalimantan, a great hunter named Sangi lived. Every time he went to the jungle to go hunting, he brought a lot of animals home. Sangi lived with his family on a riverside. As always, Sangi went to the jungle. He saw some footprints of a wild hog. He slowly followed the footprints. The footprints ended in a big tree. Sangi thought the hog was behind the tree. Slowly he walked around the tree then he was really amazed. He saw a big dragon was trying to swallow a wild hog. The hog was so big that the dragon could not swallow it easily. After several times trying to swallow, finally the dragon gave up. Suddenly, the dragon looked at Sangi. He was really shocked! He wanted to run very fast. He thought the dragon would eat him alive. Though Sangi had tried to run, his feet could not move at all. The dragon slowly came to him. Then they were face to face. When the dragon was exactly in front of him, it turned into smoke. When the smoke was gone, there was ...
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Dayak DNA Present in Madagascar

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M alagasy ethnic groups who are now in Madagascar was derived from the womb of 30 women who were stranded in the area at 1,200 year ago. Among the 30 women, 28 women of whom are from Borneo, Indonesia. Canoe-sarcophagus of the Dayak: a burial that recalls the Malagasy tradition that former Ntaolo Vazimba and Vezo buried their dead in canoe-sarcophagi in the sea or in a lake. Murray Cox, genetics researchers from Massey University, New Zealand, interested in research that states that the Dayak blood flow in the body of the people of Madagascar. Mentioned a millennium ago the original ethnic group of Borneo (Kalimantan) sailing a boat in the Indian Ocean. Hardness of the waves in the waters of this area to push the boat up stranded on an uninhabited Madagascar. The stranded group then open land in the plains to be settlements and fields. " We're talking about a culture that migrated across the Indian Ocean ," he told Live-Science. Evidence of ethnic Dayak as th...
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Tiwah, Death Rituals of Dayak Ngaju

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T iwah ritual is a procession that‘s intended to provide ancestral spirits of relatives who has passed away towards the afterlife by means of cleanse and move the rest of the body from the grave to some place called Sandung. Tiwah, Death Rituals of Dayak Ngaju Tiwah ritual is unique and distinctive ritual, since it is only done by the Dayak Ngaju of Central Borneo. Tiwah is the last degree of death rituals of Dayaks in Central Borneo especially for Kaharingan religion as the religion of the Dayak ancestors. Tiwah is a funeral ceremony, usually held on somebody who has been dead and buried quite a while until the remains of his body were expected merely a bone. Ritual tiwah aims to straightening the trip from the spirit or soul concerned into Lewu Tatau Dia Rumpang Tilang Isen Raja Kamalesu Uhat ( Heaven ) in order to reside in peace and peace in the strength of nature. Additionally, tiwah also intended like a procession to release Rutas or bad luck to the family from the...
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Battle of Bataguh (The Most Epic Ancient Battle of Dayaks)

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O nce upon a time, Sempung’s daughter from his first wife Nyai Nunyang, the head of the village Tanjung Pamatang Sawang, who is Nyai Undang , made a problem because of her beauty. Many came to propose her, while she was already engaged to her other cousin Sangalang ( Lintung’s son, grandson of Karangkang ). Illustration of Battle of Bataguh Nawang, brother of the King of  Sulu - Mindanao ( Phillipines ) came to propose. He acted foolishly even though she already refused kindly. Because she was angry for being mistreated, Nyai Undang then stabbed Nawang with her Duhung ( Dayak traditional spearhead ). Nawang’s death soon heard by his brother Sawang, and he intended to avenge the death of his brother. He prepared twenty-five pencalang ( a kind of sailboat ) with eight thousand troops on it. Nyai Nunyang fell sick and died because of this incident. Nyai Undang then had to take over the leadership of her country Tanjung Pamatang Sawang. Realizing the condition, Nyai Undan...
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Papan Turai, System of Writing on Wooden Board by Dayak Iban

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T he history from the Iban is dedicated to memory and recorded inside a system of writing on boards (papan turai ) from the initiated shamans (lemambang ). Elaborate genealogies go to 15 generations or even more having a surprising degree of accuracy. Some genealogies are so long as 25 generations and can also still be connected with actual places and incidents. A genealogy (tusut ) normally begins with the foremost remote ancestor and it is a listing of who married and begat whom. Sometimes, the ancestors are characterised briefly descriptions. Other songs contain historical information also, for instance the pengap, a ritual chant sung during each major festival, that recounts deities and also the deeds from the ancestors. According to oral histories, the Iban arrived in western Sarawak from Indonesia about 1675. After an initial phase of colonising and settling the river valleys, displacing or absorbing the local populations of Bukitans and Serus, a phase of internecine warfar...
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Languages of Borneo

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T he indigenous languages of Borneo is divided into ten subgroups (Hudson 1978). The Malayic subgroup includes Iban and Malay. The diversity and relative archaism from the Malayic languages spoken in West Borneo suggest the Malayic homeland may have been in this region. The Tamanic languages are close enough to the South Sulawesi languages to form a subgroup with these. They‘ve some striking phonological developments in common with Buginese, with which they appear to form a separate branch within the South Sulawesi language group. The Land Dayak languages have a couple of striking lexical and phonological similarities in common with Aslian languages. This means that Land Dayak originated as the results of a language shift from Aslian to Austronesian, or that both Land Dayak and Aslian have in common a source from an unknown third language. Malayic Dayak languages are section of the Malayic sub-family (including, among others, Malay, Minangkabau and Banjarese ), Tamanic languag...
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