Betang Houses

If people have homes joglo Java, people have a house gadang Padang, the Dayak people have betang house. For the Dayaks in Kalimantan, home betang called Lamin or panjal, while outsiders call it a long house or long house. It refers to an elongated shape architecture of the house to the rear. Long the home increasingly depends on how the number of families who inhabit it. More and more number of families who inhabit it, then the longer the home betang it. Fall betang house located in the village mute mute tumbles, tumbles District, Katingan, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Betang house is a kind of house that adapting the shape houses on stilts. Distance of house from the ground can reach five feet. The selection of a house like this is closely related to the natural conditions of Borneo which are generally close to major rivers. Thus, when the river overflowed, the water will not enter into the house.

One of the famous house in Borneo betang is betang house tumbles mute. Betang house located in the Katingan District, Central Kalimantan, including one of an old house that is still awake betang authenticity. The house was built in 1870 AD and takes about seven years. Betang house is among the highest in Kalimantan, because the distance from the house to the ground reaches five meters.

In the past, making betang house tumbles mute pioneered by Lion Jaya Antang, head of the tribe in the village of tumbles mute, or great-grandfather of Labuan Undong Antang which had now become the head of the family in this house. Houses built with betang Tumbang mute the main raw material of wood or iron-wood ironwood Kalimantan famous typical hard and durable. While the ladder is made from the bark of a tree-shaped staircase steps to avoid a wild animal attacks. In addition, the stairs do not intentionally made permanent, in order to be moved and lifted into the house anytime.

Privileges betang house tumbles mute can be seen from two sides, namely the architecture and the symbolic meaning.
In terms of architecture, houses that have not been renovated since construction has parts that are quite complete. In this house there is a row of rooms or tailless and a wide veranda. Foyer in this house to function other than as a gathering place for the families who occupy this house, as well as a place to perform various ceremonies and customary deliberation. At the very back of the house, there is ample room that serves as a kitchen and a place to store goods yields.

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