Kenyah
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| Kenyah | |
|---|---|
| Total population | 44,000 |
| Regions with significant populations | Belaga, Bintulu,Miri, Sarawak Malaysia, East Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| Language | Kenyah |
| Religion | Christianity & Bungan |
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[edit] The Kenyah People
The Kenyah are an indigenous, Austronesian-speaking peoples of Borneo, living in the remote Baram, Ulu Kakus, Bintulu, Miri, Sungai ASAP and Belaga regions in Sarawak, Malaysia and the remote Apo Kayan, Bahau and Mahakam regions in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
[edit] Culture and Economy
The Kenyah, traditionally being swidden agriculturalists and living in long houses, is an umbrella term for over 40 sub-groups that mostly share common migration histories, customs and related dialects. Kenyah's people also well known of their unique culture. They lived in long house. Long house bring them to unite. Each long house is like their family where they have to choose their own leader. When they have any event or celebration such as harvest festival they will use the long house verandah to gather. Normally this harvest festival celebration (ramay o o ajau) is really grand because most of them are still farmers.
[edit] Religions
They give thanks to God for the great year of blessings and almost all of Kenyah people are Christian. Before they become Christian they believe in 'Bungan Malan Peselong Luan' ( traditional religion was a form animist) which is like their God for protection and healing. But nowadays there's only a small number of Kenyah's people that still believe in Bungan and when they've died they believe to go to Alo Malau (heaven)with their ancestors.
[edit] Population
Statistical figures, based on the Indonesian and Malaysian national censuses collected in 2000, recorded a total of 44,350 Kenyah in East Kalimantan and 24,906 in Sarawak.[1]
[edit] Origins
The Usun Apau (aka Usun Apo) plateau(in the Peliran river valley) or Apo Kayan Highlands (a remote forested plateau in Malaysian and Indonesian border) in the present-day Indonesian province of East Kalimantan was the largest concentration site of Kenyah populations between the late 19th century to the early 1980s.
[edit] See also
- The Kenyah people
[edit] Notes
- ^ See 2000 National Census, Jawatan Perangkaan Malaysia, 2000 and 2000 Population Census /Sensus Penduduk 2000, Central Bureau of Statistics Indonesia, 2000
[edit] Further reading
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- ^ See 2000 National Census, Jawatan Perangkaan Malaysia, 2000 and 2000 Population Census /Sensus Penduduk 2000, Central Bureau of Statistics Indonesia, 2000
