Dayak Longhouse in China Town Singkawang

Dayak Longhouse in Singkawang.Source: pastikesingkawang

There are many aliases for Dayak people's traditional houses. In West Kalimantan, it is called "rumah radakng". The Ibans named it: rumah panyai. Central Kalimantan people call it "huma betang". People in East Kalimantan, it is called "lamin". While North Kalimantan called: kadang.

Whatever you call it. Does not change the intent of the substance. It is a communal house inhabited by many households of different lineages. Judging from the structure, it is in the form of a single house, but inhabited by various families in a single house structure.

Singkawang taught us a "lesson". When a person becomes a leader legitimately and according to the rules. It leaves the shell. That is the origin of tribes, groups, and groups.

A community in huma betang it can consist of one or several houses that each household can separate itself from its neighbors by partitioning los with walls. However, it still leaves a long corridor that serves as a common space for communal interaction.

The structure and shape of the building are more or less the same in each Dayak tribe wherever it is. High poles as the legs of the building, the same.

However, there is a unique one. Typically, longhouses are built by and among the Dayak people. However, this huma betang stands tall among the Hakka tribe in Singkawang. This is unusual.

Being a place to organize Dayak cultural customs, such as Naik Dango. This Dayak traditional house then not only belongs to the Dayak people, but belongs to all residents of Singkawang.

This Dayak traditional house is not only a physical building. However, it reflects very dominant local values and colors. At the same time, perpetuating the historical value of Singkawang as part of Sambas' history in the past.

This traditional house (Dayak) among the ethnic majority Chinese shows. That rainbow is beautiful because of the combination of various puspawarna. If it's just one color, it's not a rainbow anymore. And definitely not as beautiful as all the colors combined.

A thing worthy of thumbs up. Singkawang taught "lessons" to all of us. That when a person becomes a leader legitimately and according to the rules. It leaves the shell. That is the origin of tribes, groups, and groups.

That's the hallmark of leaders. When he is a leader, he is a leader for all.