Ngaben Tikus ceremony is heading by huge attack of mouse in local fields. It is enriched agrarian tradition in this island where it is famous of its rich culture. Holding by Balinese people, this ceremony sourced from dynamic value of Hindu religion blending with rituals, art, and other cultural elements. Ngaben Tikus ceremony is also [...]
Balinese culture decorated by beautiful religion as it is completing Balinese wisdom. One of Balinese tradition is mepandes ceremony or cutting teeth ceremony. This ceremony signs controlling symbol towards Sad Ripu, six enemies of human. Sad Ripu consists of Kama (desire), Loba (greedy), Krodha (anger), Mada (drunk), Moha (confused), and Matsarya (envy). Some ancient literatures [...]
Terunyan village lies in Kintamani, Bangli Regency, Bali where mysterious mist of Balinese often heard. Terunyan village located in the area of Batur Lake, Kintamani, it caters unique funeral custom. Local people are not but buried or burnt their corpse’ relatives but they put them on a big stone. The corpses are only fenced by [...]
Baduy people are living amongst Sundanese in Lebak Regency, Banten. Baduy word itself gave by outsiders while a Holland researcher equalized this tribe with Badawi Arab group. In the other side it can be due to the existing of Baduy River and Baduy Mountain in the northern side of this area. However they called themselves [...]
Asmat has been scared thing what people think about. Its history as the head hunters being one of causal factor as its often called cannibals tribe. Asmat is a tribe whose members ate brains of their enemies in the war periods mixed with sago worms for their halved skulls. They used to use human skulls [...]
This tribe known as the cultural ethnic of Malay but spoke also honoring Minangkabau custom. They lived in West Sumatra, half of Riau province, northern Bengkulu, western Jambi, southern North Sumatra, southwest of Aceh, and Negeri Sembilan,Malay. Minang people practicing matrilineal custom breathing strong Islam influence. It reflected by the Minang custom sounds Adat basandi [...]
Bugis was being ethnic group of South Sulawesi since its coming on 15th century. Buginese worked on administrator, trader, and fisher along Gowa kingdom governed. Then they acculturated being Bugis people. Now Buginese spread to the entire of Indonesia until Malaysia and Singapore. Further this tribe developed their own system started from culture, languages, script, [...]
Tenggerese regarded as the descendants of Majapahit people. They live in isolated Tengger mountain as farmers. They planted vegetables while they were living their special custom. Many people believed if they were evacuate from Majapahit. In that time Majapahit declined by the influence of Islam development. Tenggerese is Hindu devotees but according to Parisada Hindu [...]
Toraja tribe is one of four main tribes in South Sulawesi. Toraja itself is farmer group who lives in hills, besides Bugis tribe as majority group divides into ship maker and sailor. Most of Toraja tribes religion is Christian meanwhile half of them are Moslem and some groups of local animism named Aluk To Dolo. [...]
In your journey across Borneo, officially known in Indonesia as Kalimantan, you will find various communities of Dayak ethnic with their own distinguished characteristic. Among villages reachable by a boat trip along Mendalam river is Semangkok village occupied by Dayak Taman ethnic. There are three – longhouses locally known as Betang – in the village, [...]
