www.Primo.com: You Know Kalimantan traditional house.

As we know, Borneo was divided into four provinces. East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan.
Basically, the same customs house Kalimantan, namely the long house, it's just what makes it different is the model form of the building and the name alone.

Borneo custom homes that are :

1. Betang (Central Kalimantan).

Betang is a typical traditional house of Borneo that are located in different parts of Borneo, mainly in upstream areas that are usually at the center of the Dayak settlement, where the river is a main transportation route for the Dayak to perform a wide range of mobility of daily life such as going to work to the fields where Dayak fields are usually far from human habitation, or perform trading activities (past Dayak usually trade using a barter system is to exchange the results of the fields, orchards and livestock).

Great shape and this betang house varies in different places. There betang house which reach 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 meters from the ground. The high building houses this betang I expect to avoid flooding in the rainy season that threatened areas upriver in Borneo. Some residential units could have more than one home betang fruit depends on the size of the household members of the residential community. Each household (family) occupy booth (space) is in the boundaries of the Great Longhouse house, in addition to the generally Dayak also have single houses built temporarily to carry out agricultural activities, this is because away the distance between the fields with a settlement.

More than a building to dwelling Dayak, actually betang house 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. In the house this betang each individual life in the household and society systematically arranged by mutual agreement as outlined in customary law. Mutual security, whether from criminal interference or sharing food, love, grief and mobilization of personnel to work on the fields. The main value of which stands out in the life at home betang is the value of togetherness (communalism) among the residents who inhabit it, regardless of the differences they have. From here we know that the Dayak tribe is a tribe that appreciates a difference. Dayak appreciate the differences of ethnicity, religion or social background.

2. Rumah Panjang (West Kalimantan).

Longhouse consists of more than 50 rooms with many kitchens. The house is inhabited by several families, including the nuclear family. Even the longhouse at Putussibau Kapuas river plateau has 54 cubicles inhabited by several families.

Long house is usually built on poles as high as 5 to 8 meters such as the stage and there are up to 186 meters long and 6 meters wide. To go into it too must pass through risers or known by the name tangka.

3. Home Lamin (East Kalimantan).

Lamin house is a traditional house of Dayak, especially those located in eastern Kalimantan. The word 'house Lamin' long houses have adequate meaning all of us, where the house is used for a number of families who are members of one big family. The hallmark of this house-shaped stage with a height of up to 3 meters under. Schematics elongated rectangular with a gable roof. Part gevel given teritis with a steep slope. Masts house consists of two parts, the first part supporting the roof of the house from the ground up, the second part is a small pillar that supports the beams stage floor. Neither the primary nor the supporting pillars that are in part under sometimes carved with sculptures form to expel evil spirits disorders.

Lamin house size can have a width of 25 meters, while the length to 200 meters. Due to its length can be, there are several entrances are connected by some stairs anyway. The entrance of the house is located on the longitudinal side. Lamin room in the house is divided into two halves lengthwise at the front and back. The front side is a room open to receive guests, ceremonies and family gathering place. The back is divided into spacious rooms, where one room can be occupied by five families.

Lamin house decorated with ornamentation and decoration typical pick the philosophical meaning of Dayak. Special ornamentation of lamin manor house is a roof decoration that has a dimension of up to 4 meters and is located on the ridge. Color-wara used for lamin house also has its own meaning, yellow symbolizes authority, the red color symbolizes courage, loyalty and blue color symbolizes the color white represents purity of soul. On the front page there are also pillars of carved wood sculpture shaped. Pole wooden statue of the largest and highest being in the middle, called 'sambang lawing' which is used to bind the victims of animals used in traditional ceremonies.

4. House Banjar (South Kalimantan).

Banjar traditional house, also called the High Bubungan because the shape of the roof is so taper at an angle of 45º. Banjar traditional house building is thought to have existed since the 16th century, when the area under the rule of Prince Banjar ocean which then converts to Islam, and changed its name to the title of Sultan Suriansyah Panembahan Stone Habang. Before Islam, the Sultan Suriansyah embraced Hinduism. He led the Kingdom of Banjar in the year 1596-1620.

At first this Banjar traditional house building has a rectangular construction that extends into the future. But the later development of the long rectangular shape got extra at left and right side of the building and slightly to the rear coupled with a room of the same size length. This addition in Banjar language called disumbi. Additional buildings on the left and right side it looks stuck (in Banjar: Banana Sasikat) and flatter exit. Additional buildings on the left and the right called anjung; so then custom home building Banjar more popularly known as Ba-anjung house.

Around 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 of the primary because the house is a palace residence of the Sultan. Other buildings that accompany the building houses the ba-anjung is called Palimasan gold and silver as a store of wealth empire. Boys Hall is the residence of the minister of the empire, Bini hall residence of the nurse, Elephant Manyusu family residences nearby sultanate is the Gusti-Gusti and Anang. In addition to these buildings still found more buildings called Elephant Baliku, Palembangan Hall, and Seba.

In further developments, more and more buildings housing a well established around the empire as well as in other areas that mimic the shape ba-anjung house building. So in the end form ba-anjung house is no longer just a building form which is cirikhas sultanate (palace), but it has become a hallmark of building houses Banjar area.
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