THERE are always two kinds of things related with the Dayaks, when these local natives of Kalimantan are used to welcoming guests arriving to their village’s housing compound. These habitual traditions are Tuak Drinking and the Pancung Buluh dance.
Tuak is a fermented palm wine. Tuak is nothing more than just a home-made alcohol liquor that the Dayaks are used to drinking during their traditional ritual ceremonies.
No tuak means no cultural ritual ceremony.
Pancung Buluh is Dayak style welcoming dance to be performed as soon as guests are likely to enter their ‘new’ ground in Dayak housing compound. To show respect and honor to the arriving guests, the Dayak commonly perform Pancung Buluh dance and they offer their traditional tuak to their respected guests to drink or just to sip the tip of the container.
Refusing to drink or just to sip tuak is not advised in this matter.
Ketapang Diocese in West Kalimantan Hosts SIGNIS Indonesia’s 2018 Annual Meeting (1)
Showing respect to guests
Prominent guest or the most respected ‘chef de mission’ is requested to cut off a young bar of bamboo with the Dayak’s traditional machete called Mandau. As soon as this honored guest successfully cut off the bamboo, then the local prominent Dayak chief would request this ‘chef de mission’ to pass through the ‘perimeter’ to come across the new ground where local; Dayaks live with their social community people.
He is then followed by the whole members of the entourage to come across into the Dayak housing compound. Drinking tuak becomes the next ritual as each guest is requested to sip this traditional Dayak liquor as a courtesy to adopt the local values and cultures.
To host 2018 annual meeting
This 2018 annual meeting of SIGNIS Indonesia happens in Ketapang Diocese in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, where the Dayaks has been becoming its predominant majority. Adopting the local cultures and tradition, as local host of this SIGNIS Indonesia’s 2018 annual meeting Ketapang Diocese also hold that kind of such traditional cultural rituals.
These following pictures tell you about how the Dayak style dance Pancung Buluh and Tuak Drinking are performed during the opening ceremony of this 2018 annual meeting of SIGNIS Indonesia that take place in Ketapang from 24-28 February 2018.
