Idealized Abstraction of the Concept of Human in Dayak Kanayatn’s Byword and Its Importance in Dissolving Ethnic Conflicts in West Borneo

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10.2991/iclick-18.2019.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

human; Borneo; Dayak; Kanayatn; violence; conflict; post-structuralism

Abstract

The Dayak Kanayatn’s byword, “Adil ka’ Talino, Bacuramin ka’ Saruga, Basengat ka’ Jubata”, is becoming more and more popular nowadays, thanks to its massive use in local Borneo formal and informal meetings. Deep structural analysis shows apparent traits of universality in each of its element and concept inferring the inclusive nature of the tribe. However, the violent historical background of the tribe as revealed in our recent observations, focus-group-discussions and in-depth-interviews demonstrated just the opposite. The conflict between this tribe and other ethnics has not been completely dissolved yet. As the Post-Structuralists insist, the existentialist experiences define the disruption of human nature. This paper intends to dissolve the dichotomy or at least tries to rationalize how the idealized abstraction derived from the byword did not always correspond with the real social encounters, either between this tribe and the others or even among themselves.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ferry Hartono
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AU  - Herianus Nuryadi
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