The Dayak Iban people of West Kalimantan farm using an undulating field system. The land is cleared by burning.
During traditional events, the indigenous Dayak Iban people in Sungai Utik, Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan usually prepare pulut pansoh. Namely sticky rice cooked in bamboo. Pansoh rice is one of the dishes how many begulas (eat with) them.
Pulut is a type of rice that is planted (up to 1-2 bushels, depending on the area of the field planted) to “make way” for more rice to be planted. One bushel equals 3.125 kilograms. There are 40 types of rice planted, including pulut types which have small grains (pulut mit) and large grains (pulut besaileka). Sangking rice and pon rice are two types of rice considered to be the oldest they have, usually used for swearing-in ceremonies when there is a problem that needs to be resolved. Oohya! Read also: The Dayak Meratus have 26 types of rice and are not dependent on subsidized fertilizers.
They planted rice in the rolling fields (moving, and then until the time came, moving back to the starting fields). Land clearing is done by burning the land in August. For them, the earth is their mother, which feeds them on a daily basis. ”Tanah a Indae kitae.”
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They have a spiritual connection to the earth, they open the earth by burning. Land burning involves custom, with a land scale not large, involving the owner of the adjacent land, and there is a fire limiter, guarded and extinguished, so that it does not spread. Oh! Read too: Get to know the mobile camps of the Kalimantan Dayak community which tells how to cultivate the Meratus Dayak community.
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