Borneo Traditional House

Now, I want to make an article about custom home Kalimantan. As we know, Borneo was divided into four provinces. East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan. And since I want to discuss about the custom home Kalimantan, so the four provinces I will talk about their ancestral home.

Basically, it's the same custom home Kalimantan, the longhouse. It just makes it different is the model form of the building and the name alone. For more details, I will explain one by one down here.; )

1 . Houses Betang (Central Kalimantan)

The house is a traditional house typical Betang Kalimantan located in various parts of Borneo, especially in the upstream areas are usually at the center of the Dayak tribe settlements, where the river is a major transportation routes for the Dayak tribe to perform a variety of mobility of everyday life such as going to work to the fields where Dayak tribes fields usually far from human habitation, or trading activity (the ancient Dayak tribe usually trade using a barter system that is by mutual exchange the fields, orchards and livestock).

The shape and the house Betang varies in different places. There is a house Betang reaching a length of 150 meters and a width of up to 30 meters. Generally Betang house built in the form of a stage with a height of three to five feet from the ground. The high building Betang I expect to avoid flooding during the rainy season threatening areas upriver in Borneo. Some of the residential units may have more than one home Betang hanging fruit the size of the household members of these residential communities. Each household (family) occupy booth (room) in a partition of a big house Betang, in addition to the general Dayak tribes also have single houses were built in the time to do the farming activity, it is because away the distance between the fields where settlements.

More than a building to shelter the Dayak, Betang actual home is the heart of the social fabric of life of the Dayaks. Betang culture is a reflection of the unity in the daily life of the Dayaks. Inside the house Betang every individual's life in the household and society systematically arranged by mutual agreement embodied in customary law. Common security, either from criminal interference or sharing food, love, grief and the mobilization of manpower to work the fields. The main value that stands in his home life Betang is the value of togetherness (communalism) among the people who inhabit it, regardless of the differences they have. From this we know that the Dayak tribe is a tribe that respects the differences. Respect the Dayak ethnic differences, religious or social background.

2 . Long House (West Kalimantan)

Longhouse comprises over 50 rooms with a lot of kitchens. The house was inhabited by several families, including the core. Even long house in the highlands of the Kapuas river Putussibau have 54 booths occupied by several families.

Long houses are usually built on stilts as high as 5 to 8 feet as the stage and there are up to 186 meters long and 6 meters wide. To get into it had to pass through stairs or known as Tangka.

3. Houses Lamin (East Kalimantan)

The house is a traditional house of Dayak Lamin, especially its eastern Klaimantan. The word 'house Lamin' longhouses have adequate meaning all of us, where the house is used for several families who are members of one big family. The hallmark of this house shaped stage under degan height up to 3 meters. Schematics elongated rectangular gable. Part gevel given teritis with a steep slope. The pillars of the house consists of two parts, the first part supporting the roof of the house from the bottom up, the second part is a small pole that supports beams stage floor. Both the main and supporting poles that are in the vault sometimes carved with statues shape to repel evil spirits disorders.

Lamin home size can have a width of 25 meters, while the length up to 200 meters. Due to its length, there are several entrances connected by some stairs anyway. The entrance to the house is on the side of the house lamin memanjang. Ruang divided into two parts lengthwise on the front and rear. The front side is open space to receive guests, ceremonies and family gathering place. The back is divided into spacious rooms, where one room can be occupied by 5 families.

Lamin house decorated with ornamentation and decoration typical philosophical meaning having an indigenous Dayak. Special ornamentation lamin manor house is the ornate roof that has a dimension of 4 meters and is located on the ridge. Color-wara used for lamin house also has its own meaning, the color yellow symbolizes authority, the color red symbolizes courage, loyalty and blue color symbolizes the color white symbolizes the purity of soul. On the front page there is also a pillar-shaped carved wooden sculptures. Pole wooden statue of the largest and highest in the middle, named 'Sambang lawing' which is used to bind the victim animals used in traditional ceremonies.

4. Houses Banjar (South Kalimantan)

The traditional house of Banjar, commonly referred to as House High ridges on the roof because the shape is so sharp an angle of 45 º. Banjar traditional house building is thought to have existed since the 16th century, when the area under the rule of Prince Banjar ocean which later converted to Islam and changed his name to Sultan Suriansyah with Stone Habang Panembahan title. Before embracing Islam, the Sultan Suriansyah embraced Hinduism. He led the kingdom of Banjar in the year 1596 to 1620.

At first Banjar traditional house building has a square-shaped construction that extends into the future. But the aftermath of the long rectangular shape gets added on the left side and right side and slightly to the back of the building coupled with a room of the same size length. These additions in Banjar language called disumbi. Additional buildings on the left and right side it looks stuck (in Banjar: Banana Sasikat) and flatter out. Additional buildings on the left and right are called anjung; so then building custom homes Banjar more popularly known as Ba-anjung house.

About 1850 residential buildings in the palace Banjar, especially in the palace Martapura equipped with various forms of other buildings. But Ba-anjung house is the main building as the parent who is the Sultan palace residence. Other buildings that accompany building houses the ba-anjung is called Palimasanemas and silver as a store of wealth of the empire. Boys Hall is the residence of the imperial ministers, Balai Bini residence of the host caregivers, Elephant Manyusu family living nearby sultanate which the Gusti and Lord and Sam. In addition to these buildings still found more buildings called Elephant Baliku, Palembangan Hall, and Seba.

In further development, more and more residential buildings are well established around the empire as well as in other areas that mimic the shape of the house ba-anjung. Which in turn form the ba-anjung no longer just a form of empire building is Typically (palace), but it has become the hallmark of building houses Banjar area.

Well that's my article about Borneo's Traditional House. Next time I'll make article about traditional dance of Central Borneo.: )

Happy Reading!: D

Artikel Menarik Lainnya