Borneo Inside

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

A JOURNEY TO BORDERED VILLAGE

Nanga Mahap is sub quarter of Sekadau regency. It is 400 kilometers away and it takes 12 hours to get there from Pontianak. Along the road, live the biggest ethnic in West Borneo and known as Dayak. It has an ethnic that left behind from globalization and lived in furious land.
Dayak has a biggest and oldest ethnic in West Borneo and it has 200 subs of Dayak itself. Each of them has a different use of language, tradition and how they communicate with other. Many of them live in edge of river, inside forest and they have been living under poverty for many years. There, people have been living with no technology and no communication. It makes them maintenance with the culture and keeps it in the correct track.