Betang House (The Traditional House)



Betang House is a typical traditional house of a Dayak home. Distinctive home betang form 
elongated stage. Long House betang could reach 30 to 150 meters and a width of 10 to 30 meters, the height of the pillars of his 3-5 meters. Building materials are used to high berkaulitas i.e. ulin wood, in addition to having the power that can stand up to hundreds of years, this wood is also anti termite. In part of this betang House is divided into several rooms that are occupied by each family. In particular, creation of dayak home we must part betang line with sunrise and sunset tohilirnya side, as a symbol of hard work to survive start of Sun to grow and go home in the sun goes out.

House shape is elongated betang and there is a staircase and entrance into betang.Stairs as a means of liaison on betang named hejot. Home high in the wake of betang ground to avoid enemy that comes with sudden, wild animals, sometimes flooding struck. The House can meet betang riverbank existed in kalimantan.

On the front page of the House usually betang Hall as a guest or as a customary meeting place. The front page also contains sapundu. Sapundu is a sculpture or a totem in general human-shaped carvings. Sapundu has a function as a place for tying animals will be sacrificed for ceremonial processions. Sometimes there is also patahuin the courtyard that serves as the home of betang cult.

On the back of betang can be found a smaller Hall called tukau used as warehousesfor storing farming tools, such as the lisung or halu. On a place of betang used as storage of the weapon, where it is commonly called bawong. On the front or the backthere is also usually betang beef. Beef is a storage of the bones of the deceased's family after passing the tiwah ceremony.

Based on Dayak belief there is special provision in the laying space at Home Betangnamely:

Center or axis of buildings where people gather do 30 activities be it religious, social and community activities and other then space los, should be in the middle of the building.
Beds, space must be arranged in rows sepanjangbangunan Betang. The placement of the child's bedroom of the old danorang there is a specific provision which ruangtidur parents should be most tip of darialiran River and the harusberada youngest child sleeping on the downstream flow of the river most tip, jadiruang sleeping parents and the youngest not bolehdiapit and if it breached will mendapatpetaka for thehousehold.
Part of the kitchen should be facing the flow of the River, according to a myth so that got sustenance.

Ladder. Indoor staircase custom homes should begrjumlah Betang odd numbered 3, but generally that is located at the tip of the left and right, another one in the futureas a marker or ungakapan sense of solidariras according to the mitostergantung size of the home, the larger the size of the House the more stairs.

Pante is the floor place the rice, drying clothes, to hold a traditional ceremony. His position is in front of the exterior roof yeng projected outward. The floor of a bamboo material pante, parts of stem wood circle of pinang, wrist or stem from the Board.
The porch is the entrance to the House after passing the corresponding pante number by the number of the head of the family. On the front porch when there are ceremonies such as signs mounted hometown a bamboo whose skin resembles finely diarut fringes of the segments for the sake of appearance.
Sami functioned as a place of living area organizes activities requiring citizens.

Jungkar. Unlike the ROAR that in general there should be. While Jungkar as additional space in the back of the booth family each that connect the roof the roof is long or there are times when the roof pillar stands on its own but is still a part of the long House. Jungkar placed on the stairs into or out of a family, so as not to disturb guests who are on a trip. Jungkar a roof connecting on the roof of his long tingaatn (vents on the roof that opens with a sustained/wood report) that when rain or night can be closed again.

Betang home left on the Dayak community is an example of traditional cultural life that is able to survive and adapt to the environment. The Dayak community has an instinct to always live together side by side with nature and other community residents. They love to live peacefully in a harmonious community so trying to keep afloat with the pattern of home life betang. This expectation is supported by the awareness of each individual to align his interests with a common interest. Such awareness is based by nature mind religio-magical, that assumes that every citizen has a value andposition as well as the same right to life within the community. Betang House settlement patterns closely related to food sources provided by the surrounding nature, such as land for tillage, stream that many fish, and forests populated game. However, the dependence on nature gradually have started to diminish. The Dayak community has begun to recognize the plantations and farms. Betang House described the familiarity of the relationships in the family and in society.

Home other than dwellings betang also is the center of all activities of the traditional residents. When observed in more carefully, activities at home in traditional educational process resembles betang non formal. There were Dayak society Division or difference in working on traditional arts. Men skilled in ngamboh (Blacksmith), weaving, and carve out, while women are more skilled in weaving and weaving.


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