Bukitan people

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Bukitan
  • Beketan
  • Bakatan
  • Ketan
  • Manketa
Sarawak; a Bakatan tribesman. Photograph. Wellcome V0037433.jpg
A Bakatan(?) man in Sarawak
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Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
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Flag of East Kalimantan.svg  East Kalimantan 570 (2000) [1]
Flag of West Kalimantan.svg  West Kalimantan 290 (2000) [2]
Flag of Sarawak.svg  Sarawak 289 (2000) [3]
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Bukitan (also Baketan or Bakatan) are the indigenous people native to the Nanga Palin in Embaloh Hilir of Kapuas Hulu Regency, [4] Indonesia. Nowadays, the Bukitan diaspora can be found in the neighbouring Nanga Palin as well; including the district of Bintulu in Sarawak. [5]

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History

Origin

The origin of the Bukitan is from the Nanga Palin in Embaloh Hilir of Kapuas Hulu Regency in West Kalimantan. Due to the tribal conflict with its neighbouring tribe (Iban people), some of Bukitans have to migrate out of their homeland. [6] [7] However, significant population of Bukitan people can still be found in their ancestral territory.

Diaspora

Some of the Bukitan fled to Saribas which is what is now in the Betong Division. There, they settled and built their community. During those years, they co-existed with another diaspora of Ibans there, after a peace sealed by the marriage of the daughter of their leader Entinggi to the son of the Iban chief Tindin. [8] Some of them also moved into Sarawak via Lubok Antu and settled there in the 19th century. [9]

After many years, due to some misunderstandings, war broke out with the Ibans and they lost. They again fled to various places before settling in Merit River, a tributary of Batang Tatau river in Bintulu division and its vicinity until today. [10]

Evidence of Bukitan existence can be found in areas such as the Saribas (Paku, Layar and Rimbas) [11] and Lubok Antu in the form of burial grounds, name of places and ancient orchards.

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Bukitan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Bukitan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. ↑ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. SIL International. ISBN   1-55671-159-X.
  4. ↑ Victor T. King (1995). The Maloh of West Kalimantan: an ethnographic study of social inequality and social change among an Indonesian Borneo people. Foris Publications. p. 53. ISBN   90-676-5065-X.
  5. ↑ Jean-Francois Bissonnette, Stephane Bernard & Rodolphe De Koninck (2011). Borneo Transformed: Agricultural Expansion on the Southeast Asian Frontier. NUS Press. ISBN   978-9971-69-544-6.
  6. ↑ Traude Gavin (2004). Iban Ritual Textiles. NUS Press. p. 4. ISBN   99-716-9294-5.
  7. ↑ Vinson H. Sutlive & Joanne Sutlive, ed. (2001). The Encyclopaedia of Iban Studies: O-Z. Tun Jugah Foundation. p. 1593. ISBN   98-340-5133-6.
  8. ↑ Barau Anak Gelayan (2016). Nalong Anak Buda (ed.). Betie Tajak Ngakak Tajai Ngelayang. Johnny Anak Chuat. ISBN   978-967-10174-8-7.
  9. ↑ Victor T. King (1995). The Maloh of West Kalimantan: an ethnographic study of social inequality and social change among an Indonesian Borneo people. Foris Publications. p. 53. ISBN   90-676-5065-X.
  10. ↑ Vinson H. Sutlive & Joanne Sutlive, ed. (2001). The Encyclopaedia of Iban Studies: A-G. Tun Jugah Foundation. p. 321. ISBN   98-340-5131-X.
  11. ↑ Rob A. Cramb (2007). Land and Longhouse: Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak. NIAS Press. ISBN   978-87-7694-010-2.
  12. ↑ "Host state treats Sarawak athletes to Gawai gathering". The Borneo Post. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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