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Anak Dalam's Animism

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The original inhabitants of Jambi province include the Anak Dalam tribe. A small part is in the southern area of ​​Bukit 30 National Park. Indeed, since the ancestors of the Orang Rimba, they have been accustomed to agricultural activities & this can be seen in various taboos that are prohibited when agricultural activities take place. Even though harvesting can only be done after the rubber reaches 9 years of age, the main thing is to prevent the widespread clearing & even selling of forest land by hamlet communities on a large scale, especially the strong flow of illegal logging. The majority of the Anak Dalam tribe adhere to animist beliefs in traditional religion. The three main concepts of causality, as demonstrated by the Anak Dalam tribe in the preoperational stage, include animism, artificialism & transductive reasoning. The Anak Dalam tribe goes through an animism phase, namely a phase where they have an interest in inanimate objects & consider them alive. As a

Kerinci's Animism

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Radiocarbon dating shows the activity of the modern Kerinci tribe around 15,000 years ago. Evidence of their presence is found at the Bukit Arat & Koto Pekih sites, where Neolithic tools and red slip pottery were found. Paleoecological evidence around Lake Bento also shows Austronesian presence there as indications of rice farming & buffalo grazing activities. The central position is in Renah Salambuku. In the 14th century AD, Maharaja Dharmasraya from the Malayu Kingdom in Hulu Batanghari bestowed the Book of Constitution on the Dipatis in Silunjur Bhumi Kurinci. It is written using the Incung script which is part of the Rencong script group along with other local scripts in Sumatra such as the Ulu letter, Rejang & had Lampung. Their population system is based on a group of peruts originating from a common ancestor called the kelbu. This means that the tribe/clan is determined from the mother's lineage to the first female ancestor. The luhah consists of an association

Pindah's Animism

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The native population of Jambi province belongs to the Pindah Tribe. Meanwhile, the Pindah Tribe culture combines Malay & Palembang culture who live in several sub-districts in Batanghari & Sarolangun Regencies. In 2013, a thesis was written in the Sociology Department of the State University of Malang's Sociology Education Study Program with the keyword transformation of Islamic animism about the transformation of the belief system from animism to Islam in Batanghari Regency. Animism is the belief in spirits & spirits which is the basis of religious beliefs that first appeared among ancient humans. Animist beliefs believe that every object on this Earth has a soul that must be respected so that this spirit does not harm humans. Apart from the souls & spirits that reside in the places stated above, animist beliefs also believe that the spirits of dead people can enter the bodies of animals. Animism is the belief in inanimate objects that have spirits. The spirits of

Batin's Animism

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The native population of Jambi province includes the Batin tribe. The Batin tribe has Malay elements in its culture & some have combined with Minangkabau culture, many live in Bungo, Merangin, Tebo, and Sarolangun districts. Around 72,000 Batin people are living in the interior of southern central Sumatra. The Batin people come from people who inhabit the mountainous areas to the west, such as the Kerinci people who inhabit the lowlands to the east. In terms of belief, even after embracing religion, the practice of animism & dynamism is still strongly attached. Etymologically, dynamic comes from the Greek dynamis / dynaomos, but the dynamic is in English. Animism from Latin is anima which means soul/spirit. Animism, on the other hand, comes from the Latin word anima, meaning soul/spirit. According to EB Taylor, animism is the belief in the existence of living spirits & souls throughout the universe. In 1873 he wrote a book entitled Primitive Culture. In this book, he introd

Jambi's Animism

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Long after the Ice Age, the Mongoloid race spread to the south of the Asian continent and even reached the American continent through the Bering Strait. Those who spread to Asia were then known as the Malay deutro people in Indonesia who developed metal & bronze culture. The name of one of the countries they live in, Jambi, is often mentioned in Chinese inscriptions and news. The oldest news about the Jambi Kingdom comes from Tang Hui Yao which was compiled by Wang Pu in 961 AD, during the reign of the Tang & Hsin Tang Shu dynasty which was compiled in the early 7th century AD during the reign of the Sung dynasty. The king, Srimat Tribhuwanaraja Mauli Warmadewa, married Puti Reno Mandi. One of his children, Dara Jingga, later married Kertanegara's envoy, Mahesa Anabrang & gave birth to Adityawarman. When Kertanegara's envoys returned to Java, they found that the Singasari Kingdom had been destroyed due to attacks from Kublai Khan from the Yuan Dynasty, assisted by R