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Dayak: see Dyak Dyak or Dayak (both: dī`ăk) ..... Click the link for more information. . DayakAny member of a non-Muslim indigenous people of the southern and western interior of the island of Borneo. Dayak is a generic term that has no precise ethnic or tribal significance but distinguishes the indigenous people from the largely Malay population of the coastal areas. Most Dayaks are riverine people who live in small longhouse communities. Children live with their parents until marriage, and boys, who usually seek brides outside their own village, go to live in their wife's community. Their subsistence economies rest on the shifting cultivation of hill rice, supplemented by fishing and hunting. They number more than two million. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thus, for example, indigenous Dayaks in Kalimantan who were aggrieved by their marginal status attacked rival Madurese in 1996-97, "when Suharto's regime was nearing its end and a succession crisis was looming" and because riots elsewhere had already "shown the vulnerability of the state's repressive apparatus and opened up the horizon for political change" (p. In Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), since 1997 native Dayaks have fought Madurans who have been immigrating with government encouragement since the 1950s. In 1997, during the turmoil leading up to the fall of the Suharto regime, Dayaks attacked Madurese, seeking to drive them out of Kalimantan. |
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