Naik Dango Traditional

Naik Dango traditional ceremony is a ceremony to express gratitude to Grandma Jubata (creator) of an abundant rice harvest. In addition to gratitude, the Dayak community in West Kalimantan Naik Dango perform the ceremony is also to ask the Creator for the harvest next year could be better, as well as the community of catastrophe and disaster averted. Naik Dango ceremony implementation phase is as follows: 1. Before the day of execution Before the day of execution, first performed reciting mantras (nyangahathn) called Matik. It aims to inform and invoke blessings on Jubata. 2. When the day of execution On the day of execution carried out 3 times nyangahathn: • Sami's first, aims to call the soul or spirit of the rice that has not come to come back to the custom house. • second in Baluh / Langko, aims to gather the spirit of rice in place of the granary. • third in Pandarengan, the goal is to pray to bless the rice in order to survive and not run out quickly. Naik Dango is the only event held Kendayan Dayak culture regularly every year. In Ceremony Naik dango, in addition to the core events of "nyangahathn".  


Ceremony Naik Dango essentially only lasts one day but because it also displays various forms of traditional culture among various traditional ceremonies, traditional games and various forms of handicraft are also traditional nuances, so this event lasted for seven days. Presentation of various traditional elements, during this Ceremony Naik dango, making it an exotic event in the midst of busyness Dayak communities. Ceremony Naik Dango is a further development of Dayak art performance event organized by the Secretariat of the Joint Arts Dayak in 1986. 
3. The development strongly influenced by the spirit of thanksgiving to Jubata implemented in the Dayak Kendayan Menyuke every year after the rice harvest was over . 
In its traditional implementation of post-harvest Ceremony is bordered on the village territory or ketemanggungan. The essence of this ceremony is nyangahathn ie reciting prayers or mantras to Jubata, then they are neighbors and relatives visit the house with its main treats such as Poe or salikat (lemang of glutinous rice or sticky rice cooked in bamboo), tumpi bowsprit), bontonkng ( rice wrapped in leaves of forest the size of the cake), traditional foods made from annual crops and food additives.  

Origins Naik Dango Naik dango is based on the myth of the origin of rice is becoming popular among the Dayaks of West Kalimantan, the story of "Ne Baruankng foreskin" that Grandpa Baruangkng the foreskin because it is not circumcision. The story starts from the origin of the story comes from a sprig of paddy rice at the Mountain Garlic's Jubata a sparrow which was stolen and the rice falls into the hands of Ne Jack (Jack grandmother) who was mengayau. Return is only carrying a sprig of grass fruit (rice) Jubata owned, and not the head that he took led to his being ridiculed. And his desire to cultivate paddy sprig of it causes conflict between them that she was evicted. In his wandering he met with Jubata. The results of his marriage to Jubata is Ne Baruankng foreskin. Ne Baruankng foreskin is what ultimately brought the rice to "talino" (humans), because he likes down to earth man to play "Spinner". These actions also cause he was expelled from the Onion Mountain and eventually mate with humans. Ne Baruankng foreskin who introduced rice or rice for a food source of human life, in lieu of "Toadstool" (mushrooms, human food before knowing rice), to humans. However, to obtain rice tragedy expulsion in the environment humans and that shows kindness jubata Jubata mankind. Ceremony Naik Dango meaning for the people of the Dayak Kendayan among others, namely the first: as a sense of gratitude for the gift Jubata to humans because it has provided rice as food for humans, the second: as a blessing to Jubata request to use rice that has been stored on the dango rice , so that the rice used is really a blessing for man and not run out quickly, the third: as a sign of the closing years of farming, and fourth: as a means to bersilahturahmi to strengthen ties of brotherhood or solidarity. In modern packaging, Indigenous ceremonies ride this dango dimeriahi by various forms of custom events, traditional art, and exhibits various forms of traditional crafts. This causes Naik Dango more prominent as the party of the ritual. But seen from the roots of tradition, he remained a traditional ceremony. Sources: encyclopedias-culture-indonesia.com