Benuaq's Kaharingan


Benuaq itself comes from the word Benuaq broadly meaning a certain territory/region, such as a country/nation. According to the ancestors of the Benuaq people & based on the language dialect group in Benuaq, it is believed that the Benuaq people did not actually come from Central Kalimantan, except from the Seniang Jatu group. Each has a story/history that their ancestors were on earth directly in their current place.

One version of the story of their ancestors is Aji Tulur Jejangkat & Mook Manar Bulatn. Both have descendants of Nara Gunaq so Benuaq people, Sualas Gunaq ancestors are Tonyoy/Tunjung, and Puncan Karnaq ancestors are Kutai people. Benuaq people in the lower Mahakam area & Jempang Lake and its surroundings to Bongan & Kedang Pahu River claim to be descendants of Seniang Bumuy. Seniang Jatu is believed to be the ancestor of the Benuaq people in the Bentian & Nyuatan areas.

It is said that Seniang Jatu descended from Aput Pererawetn, on the banks of the Barito River, downstream of Muara Teweh. According to legend, Ningkah Olo first came down to earth, setting foot in an area called, in the Benuaq language, Luntuq Ayepm. The rest of the Benuaq Dayak tribe in Samarinda city finally moved to the north of the city, in the Benangaq village area, Lempake sub-district, North Samarinda district.

Prof. Dr. Laurentius Dyson P, an anthropology educator at Airlangga University, Surabaya. Aloysius Nerekng, a Dayak Tonyoy - Benuaq figure in Balikpapan city. Santi, who was an early pioneer of the rijoq culture, which developed so much in the early 2000s, then there was the Datai Munte group from Dasaq village which then gave birth to a rijoq song that was quite beautiful to hear, created by Miyati, namely Peruko Nalau, popularized by a capable rijoq singer, namely Sigum.

At the 2014 Pesparawi in Jogjakarta, the Rijoq song composed by Petrus Bien was sung by the Dayak Tonyoy - Benuaq choir with great pride in the UGM hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJKAvuuYV0&ab_channel=GKSTSIONTOLAI. In the context of managing the universe including the relationship between living things & their death as well as the relationship with the cosmos, it must be by the customs and manners inherited by the ancestors of the Benuaq people. During the New Order era, the Benuaq Dayak tribe experienced its worst era.

In Indonesian history textbooks, animism & dynamism are the beliefs of the ancestors of the Indonesian people. However, the Dayak people, especially adherents of the Kaharingan religion, believe in the existence of God & believe that the universe and all living things have spirits & feelings just like humans, except for reason. For the Dayak people, especially the Benuaq Dayak belief is more than animism & dynamism, but believe that the universe and all living things have spirits & feelings just like humans, except for reason.

The Dayak Benuaq community is one of the tribes in Indonesia that has an animism & dynamism belief system which is the general belief of the ancestors of the Indonesian people. The Dayak Benuaq community belief system, namely animism & dynamism, is the general belief of the ancestors of the Indonesian people. For the Dayak people in particular, the Dayak Benuaq belief is more than animism & dynamism.

However, they believe that the universe & all living things have spirits and feelings just like humans except for reason. There are also statues made to trick evil spirits so as not to disturb humans. According to the beliefs of the Dayak Benuaq community, the Kwangkey traditional ceremony is a ritual to deliver the spirit of the deceased to Lumut by dancing with bones until the peak event of slaughtering a buffalo which is believed to be an offering of transportation for the spirit being prayed for.

This level shows the improving life of the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife. This level shows the improving life of the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife. The Dayak Benuaq used to embrace the Kaharingan religion, but in the early 1990s, this tribe embraced Christianity & Islam.

Approximately 52.5% of the Benuaq Dayak population is affiliated with Protestant Christianity, approximately 42.5% are members of the Roman Catholic church, 4% adhere to Islam & 1% practice Kaharingan.

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