Dayak tribal culture in Indonesia

Rabu, 30 Desember 2015

Dayak tribe or urakng are natives who largely inhabit remote areas of Borneo. Settlement covers the entire territory of the island of Borneo, the West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan. Besides, they inhabit the North Borneo is now the territory of the Federation of Malaysia and the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. Sub Dayak tribe inhabiting the area are Dayak Murut who inhabit the East Malaysia, Sabah and the northern part of Borneo Timur.1.
Dayak name is the name of the other residents who are not religious Islam.2. The name is sometimes used to distinguish between tribes living in remote areas with ethnic Malays who inhabit coastal areas. Besides, there are also Dayaks who are Muslims, but they are still called Malay, Dayak name so often used to distinguish the native tribes who still embraced the original (Kaharingan), Protestant and Catholic, with people who embraced Islam.
Dayak included in the Austronesian ethnic group who migrated to Southeast Asia between 2500 BC-1500 BC. The migration started from several regions around Yunnan, the South China region, the river Yang Tse Kiang, Mekhong and Menan. They headed for Indonesia through West Malaysia and then spread to Sumatra, Java, Bali and Kalimantan in part to that included in the Mongoloid race or have a match with the characteristics tersebut.3 race.

Dayak migration takes place within a period of long and divided into Proto-Malay (Melayu old) and Deutro-Melayu (Malay youth) to show their displacement wave. The first wave took place around 300 BC or Neolithic era. The second wave after cultured metal later known as Dayak.4 tribe.

Dayak community has a variety of custom order of life or run. Everything related to customs are ideal manifestation of a culture that is upheld in everyday life. It is a culture system in which there is a system of norms and legal systems that guide life in society. They consider their cultural systems have a high value, valuable, meaningful, it is important to be lived and carried out in life. Dayak communities also have the concept of God, the wisdom to manage forests in a traditional manner, and the arts as a result of the infusion of religious aesthetic sense. All that is regarded as a precious heritage that must be preserved and passed back to the next generation.


Art is an important part of a ceremony. He not only has a role in life, but contains the values ​​of the religious communities in accordance with the customs and beliefs held Dayak community. Pentingkesenian meaning not just limited to the fulfillment of aesthetic satisfaction (entertainment) and a depiction of a culture, but it is believed to have functions, symbols and cultural values ​​in accordance with its position as a forum for creativity and intellectual community. This is because art includes the understanding of the process of integrating the elements tradisional.5. It means that the elements of tradition in the Dayak community life depicted in their art and are considered to contain a particular symbol as a reflection of life they lead. It is the disclosure of the value of aesthetic and emotional expression in accordance with the scope of culture.
Art in the Dayak community is one element of the culture that was born of the intellect and interpreted together by the community owner. He is a product of a culture that is born of social cohesion which is collective. He is also a container based on the creativity of the community with the aesthetic values ​​in which there is a system of shared meaning. This is because the Dayak community art is the result of social processes and not the individual. It means that even though the music created by one person, but in its development he experienced a change in behavior as a result of a collective society to the music, it automatically experiencing a collective meaning, in accordance with the nature of the supporting community. The closeness of art with Kanayatn Dayak community life can be said to affect one to interpret something that is felt and believed, or as a container appreciative associated with life. He is a symbol disclosure, value and function, so that these three elements can sustain the arts and give special meaning to people's lives.

Art in the Dayak community is deemed closely related to the context of cultural activity dilaksanakan.6. It is the realization of a concept of behavior and mindset of the people in accordance with the prevailing customs and traditions, so that everything contained in it is transpormasi value of community life owner.