tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49963337576088545462011-07-08T16:15:05.785+07:00This blog attempts to describe and to reveal honestly and fully about Kapuas Hulu, our homeland. Its strength and weakness faces new global order and sophisticated technology.The Heart of Borneohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267091586981341869noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996333757608854546.post-60091528543210364992010-09-07T23:00:00.005+07:002010-09-08T16:39:32.093+07:00

Men and women work together unweariedly during the daylight. Holding long hosepipes, they pour swift water over the ground to slide down the soil. Sometimes their activity is located in outlying woodland area, remote from settlements.Browny water mingles with mud descend rapidly to a narrow pond. Afterwards those will be taken up with a big pipe by an absorbing machine, hoping for some pieces of

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August is commonly known as the starting phase of traditional farming for Dayak in Kapuas Hulu. Now, climate change makes everything unpredictable. Full or rain during August causes farmers begin farming this month, September.The traditional farming of Dayak is well-known as shifting cultivation using inherited seed. Scientifically, shifting cultivation refers to those who conduct rotational

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Dishes of food and traditional munchies are laid out on. Rice powder from the harvest’s grain rice, is baked become appetizing cakes. Tuak, the traditional beverage is un-left.People dance and sing gleefully. Every household visits others. Some traditional rituals are conducted.May is a special month for Dayak Kantuk tribe. In this month they celebrate “Makai Taun”.Makai Taun is an annual

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A woman from the village Sukamaju, Mentebah sub-district in Kapuas Hulu, was carrying tengkalang contained bananas. Tengkalang or tengkin is a basket used to carry fruit and vegetables from farming. It's made from rattan. The natives of Kapuas Hulu use it as a bag to bring anything to go farming.It's very useful to carry heavy things, such as fruits, firewood and sweeden rice, and sometimes it's

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The mortar dance (The Lesung Dance) comes from the Dayak tribe of Kapuas Hulu.The dance is held as an expression of gratitude for the success of the rice harvest. Rice harvest is commonly conducted in June every year. After the rice harvest, farmers will have a party of rice. In this party, youth would present dances, one of them is the mortar dance. In this dance, one of the male dancer would

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This dance comes from Dayak tribe of Mendalam, in Kapuas Hulu. Dancer dressed in traditional clothes of Dayak Mendalam. The equipment of Dayak traditional dress in general use as a decorative feather on his head, and tattoos on his arms and neck.

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Children are playing in the wooden path along the huts. That path is the only place for kids’ playground in that hamlet. They do not have another place as the hamlet is surrounded by water and swampy forest. In the daytime when sun shines heatly, those children play on an shed, enjoy the windy air in Sentarum Lake.It’s name Lubuk Liuk, a small village in Sentarum Lake watery. It’s 20 minutes by

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We write this after noticing that often foreign visitors face difficulty to get in Kapuas Hulu area due to the poor transportation. The only airport in Kapuas Hulu is in Putussibau, the capital of this regency. To come to Kapuas Hulu, you first should enter West Borneo. There are several paths to get in West Borneo:First, you take flights from Jakarta to Pontianak (the capital of West Borneo

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A long house in the district of Batang Lupar, Betang Sawah, burnt last week. Currently betang residents are living in emergency tents. Local Government of Kapuas Hulu already has provided rehabilitation assistance cost of 20 million rupiah and 750 zinc of roof. Betang Sawah was comprised of 15 doors, occupied by Dayak Iban community. Fire allegedly came from one of the kitchens in that long house

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Long-houses are alive and well in Kalimantan (for the time being - but not as they used to be), especially in Kapuas Hulu. The native call long house as “BETANG”.There has been some longhouse revival trends since the mid 1990s (some are motivated by the government, and some are genuine revivals). It’s no more gigantic structures but at least the government is moving towards a more tolerant

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The local wisdom of Dayak said that nature is part of your life. When you devastated forest, you created a wipeout not only for your life, but also for your next generations. There’s an ancient idiom, river is the blood and land is the breathing for whole beings.Forest has the undeniable meaning for Dayaknese. Preserving the forest is the natural bear-ability as a Dayaknese, as the Dayak Iban in

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Dayak Tamambaloh is a tribe lives as a group, stays along Tamambaloh river and Labian river, across the north Kapuas Hulu. The tribe still alive relies heavily on nature and people always keep the closeness with vicinity.Unlike Dayak Iban tribe or Dayak Taman tribe which still reside in long houses, the people of Dayak Tamambaloh tribe live in single house gathering nearby a river or a road.

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No matter how hard the wind blows, it keeps standing on its shelf. Often ripple shakes, it feels like a beautiful dance of an earthquake. Such a long unbroken swell from a speedboat rushing past through the river, it stands still, tough and rough along-side the river.It looks like a house, because, yes, it is. It’s a floating house, an unique abode which also can be found on several canals in

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In the last few years, the concerns on mercury pollutant of Kapuas River awareness have grown from the environmentalist groups as well as the whole stakeholders. The sources of mercury pollutant are from small scale gold mining which is considered as illegal.So far, the efforts to prevent water pollution and environmental destruction are in failure as a result, the damage is continuous with no

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Lake Sentarum National Park, frequently called the heart of Borneo, is the largest wetland ecosystem in Asia, covering 132,000 hectares of swamp and marsh. The park’s existence is so vital that the zone has held a place on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance since 1994.Located in West Kalimantan’s Kapuas Hulu regency, the park is facing a gloomy future, threatened by a plan to

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The idea of determining Kapuas Hulu district to be a conservation district is based on fact that there are various conditions of the existing condition of Kapuas Hulu and other external factors which can be integrative support to establish conservation district. It’s declared with the Decree of the Head District of Kapuas Hulu, No. 144/2003. These factors include firstly, total area of Kapuas

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The Kapuas river is far from the picture-perfect mountain stream it once was. Indeed, the big river in Selimbau district, Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, is threatening to become a giant waste dump. Plastic and paper waste, feces and other detritus produced by humans meander down the banks of the river from houses perched on stilts. Where there are animals in barns, yet more unpleasant

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The Dayak or Dyak are the peoples indigenous to Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic subgroups, located principally in the interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily identifiable.Dayaks are categorised as part of wider Austronesian-speaking populations in Asia.

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Technology is evolving at a rapid rate. And if you do not keep up with the rate of change it could easily leave you behind in its wake. One of the results of this technological improvement is the way people communicate with each other and the world around them. The revolution in communication has lead to newer ways of doing business.Working at home is one such phenomenon that has been made

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Contrary to what many scholars may believe, Borneo offers scores of archaeological sites, even in its far hinterlands, and one can only regret that so little attention has been granted to an island whose history is crucial in Southeast Asia.Hardly any of these sites have been excavated, besides a few famous ones in Sarawak. At Tanjung Lokang, a Hovongan (or Punan Bungan, another formerly nomadic

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Kapuas Hulu district is located at the eastern part of West Kalimantan province. It is situated at 0o08’ NL – 1o36’ NL, and 111o32’ EL– 114o09’ EL. The capital city is Putussibau. It can be reached by land, air and water. It takes about 18 hours (660 kilometers) by car or bus from Pontianak to Putussibau, or 1.5 hours flight by ATR 42 aircrafts from Supadio airport in Pontianak to Pangsuma

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