traditional house in Kalimantan

Betang House (call for custom homes in the province of West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan),
a house occupied by the Dayak people. Special Interest found in various parts of Kalimantan,
especially in upstream areas which usually becomes the center of the Dayak tribe settlements,
where the river is the main transport pathway for the Dayak to perform a variety of mobility of
everyday life like going to work to the fields where the fields are usually far from the Dayak tribe
settlements, or perform trade activities (the ancient Dayak tribes usually trade using the barter
system with the mutual exchange of fields, orchards and livestock).

Houses betang discrete, namely: Stage shapes, elongated. Dayak tribe in particular, the
manufacture must be longhouse upstream direction of the sunrise and the sunset next to the
downstream direction, as a symbol of hard-work to survive from the sun to grow and go home in the
sun outages.

Special Interest forms and large houses will vary in different places. There are houses that reach
lengths of Special Interest 150 meters wide and up to 30 meters. Special Interest Generally houses
built in the form of a stage with a height of three to five feet off the ground. Special Interest tall
building, I expect to avoid flooding during the rainy season that threatened areas upriver in Borneo.
Some residential units can have more than one Special Interest houses hanging fruit the size of the
household members of the residential community. Each household (family) occupies the chamber
(room) that the barriers of a large house the Special Interest, in addition to the general Dayak tribes
also have single houses built temporarily to perform agricultural activities, it is because away
distances between fields with the settlement.
More than a building for residential Dayak tribe, Special Interest actual house is the heart of the
social structure of the life of the Dayak people. Special Interest culture is a reflection of the
togetherness in the daily life of the Dayak people. Special Interest in the house is every individual's
life in households and communities are systematically arranged by mutual agreement set forth in the
customary law. Common security, both from criminal interference or sharing food, the joys and
sorrows as well as mobilization of manpower to work the fields. The main value that stands out in his
home life is the value of togetherness Special Interest (communalism) among the citizens who
inhabit it, regardless of the differences they have. From here we learn that the Dayak tribe is a tribe
that respects difference. Appreciate the differences in ethnic Dayak tribe, religion or social
background.

But at present too many outsiders (and even Indonesia's own people) think that the Dayak tribe is
closed, individual, rude and barbarous. Actually this is a big lie created by the Dutch colonial time
period of Indonesia's independence struggle to divide the unity, especially among the Dayak
themselves at that upholds the culture of Special Interest home.