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Colorful: Dayak women wear traditional dresses adorned with hornbill ' locally known as Enggang gading or Rangkong bird ' headgear
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span class="caption" style="width: 510px;">Colorful: Dayak women wear traditional dresses adorned with hornbill ' locally known as Enggang gading or Rangkong bird ' headgear.
The ambience created by the Dayak culture on display permeated Bung Karno Sports Stadium at Senayan, Jakarta, on April 27-30, when provincial, regency and city administrations along with Dayak ethnic groups from all over Kalimantan joined the first Dayak Cultural Festival 2013.
The festival served as a forum to introduce the time-honored culture of the Dayak people ' as part of the Indonesian nation ' to the world. It will be an annual promotional event for the Dayak community in Kalimantan to present their products as well as the commodities of their regional administrations.
The festival is a collaboration between the National Dayak Communal Assembly and the Dayak Custom Council and is included in the Dayak community's annual events. In the coming years, this festival is planned to be held alternately in Kalimantan's provinces.
The culture and arts of the Dayak community have mostly been staged at regency, city and provincial levels, with very rare performances on national occasions, despite Kalimantan's Dayak communities having diverse and unique features to offer.
The Dayak Cultural Festival 2014 will take place in Central Kalimantan.
Starting point: Participants of the Dayak Art and Culture Festival 2013 during a parade from Istora Senayan Stadium that took in Jl. Sudirman and the Youth Statue. Several Dayak ethnic groups from provinces in Kalimantan joined the festival last week.
Feathered fascinator: A young girl wears accessories made from bird feathers.
High society: A Dayak woman with her elongated ears this tradition is related to high social status.
Masquerade: Two masked dancers prepare to dance at the festival.
Monkey business: Several Dayak youths wear Bekantan (proboscis monkey) masks; the animal is found across Kalimantan.
' Text and photos by JP/P.J.LEO
