Art and Culture of West Kalimantan

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Art and Culture of West Kalimantan

West Kalimantan province of Indonesia, located on the island of Borneo and its capital Pontianak. This area is directly adjacent to Sarawak parts of neighboring countries, namely Malaysia. West Kalimantan province called suangai thousand, because the province has a lot of sungan small and large suangai used as the main line to enter inland transport. Indonesia is rich in a wide variety of races and cultures, especially in the province of West Kalimantan.

Just like other areas in Indonesia, West Kalimantan also have arts and culture possessed by this area. And this time I will try to make an article about some of the arts and culture in West Kalimantan or Pontianak.

Art and Culture of West Kalimantan (Pontianak)

West Kalimantan has many arts and cultural diverse, and here are some of arts and culture that comes from the area:

Language

Indonesian is the language commonly used by people in West Kalimantan. Additionally languages ​​namely Malay connecting Pontianak, Sambas and Bahasa Melayu Senganan distribution by region

Custom home

West Kalimantan has a traditional house called home betang. Betang shape and big houses vary in different places. No home betang length of 150 meters and width of 30 meters. Generally betang house built on stilts with a height of three to five meters from the ground. The high betang houses to avoid flood in the rainy season

Traditional clothes
Custom clothing for West Kalimantan named King Baba for men and King Bibige for women. The clothes made of bark that is processed to become soft as cloth. The bark can be used as a fabric for making aprons, pants, shirts, blankets clan was called Capua or ampuro.

Traditional weapon
Traditional weapons from West Kalimantan named Saber. Saber Sword kind that is unique, with the carving and distinctness. Its head is made from deer antlers carved, while iron materials Ahpang (Saber) made of iron mined itself and consists of two types, namely Bahtuk Nyan famous hard and sharp that flies perch can drop out but are easily broken and the People Motihke famous bending , toxic and does not rust.

Traditional dance
West Kalimantan has several traditional dance such as:
dance Monong
This dance is a healing dance and dance serves as a repellent or medicine or antidote to the disease so that the patient can recover dancers act like a shaman with incantations. This dance is present while the shaman is in a state of trance or unconscious.

Dance oil Uut Danum
Uut Danum oil, is perangyang dance show agility in the face of enemy dankewaspadaan

Traditional musical instruments
West Kalimantan has a lot of musical instruments typical of the area, some of them:
sapek
Sapek a traditional string instrument of Kapuas upstream among the Dayak Kapuas upstream Kayaan Mendalam

Gong

Gong or Agukng, Kollatung (Uut Danum) is a percussion instrument made of brass, is a multifunctional instrument both as dowry, as a symbol of the spirit stand in marriage. as well as a payment of the customary law.

Robo-robo tradition
Robo-robo tradition is held the last Wednesday of Sapar month (Hijri) that symbolize blessing. According to the story, this rite is a warning or trail Mas Surya Negara arrival of the Prince of the Kingdom of Matan (Martapura) to the Kingdom Mempawah (Pontianak). Robo-robo itself was intended as a warning Haulan series of important events began on Monday evening last Tuesday of the month Syafar to commemorate the death of Opu Daeng Manambun

Handycrafts
Communities in West Kalimantan have expertise in producing a craft which is typical of the area, and some people of Borneo eyed percaharian as handicraft makers. And crafts commonly made, namely
The mats are made of rattan mats

Then the form of woven crafts made from bamboo that produce bags or baskets

Already described some of the arts and culture in West Kalimantan. There are still a lot of arts and culture in the area. To find other arts and culture can we find by browsing the internet. By knowing the arts and culture in Indonesia is able to cause a sense of love and are proud of our country, because the diversity in this country were amazed. And the thought of our state motto is "Unity in Diversity" which has different meanings but still one nevertheless. This means that although the arts and culture in Indonesia is different in each region Indeonesia unite all citizens and does not cause all of it becomes a conflict. And as a successor to the nation a good student would be helpful to maintain and preserve the arts and culture that has existed since time immemorial that arts and culture are not extinct in the meal by the era that increasingly advanced.