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Lintang's Animism

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This article was written based on research we conducted in 2013. This research was to fulfill a thesis course in the Indonesian literature department, faculty of literature, State University of Malang. The focus of this research is the Lintang tribe who inhabited South Sumatra for 24 years where Sriwijaya was the center of world civilization in the past. In this case, what makes this article different is that it is the author's reference to strengthen the identity of the Lintang tribe from the references of Dutch writers such as Roskott who have a peaceful, accommodating, tolerant & compromising character and tend to show opposition in the form of voluntary surrender. This society comes from the Vedda race, supporters of the Paleolithic culture which developed 700 years BC. And they admit that their descendants are from Majapahit, even Kediri & Singosari. Firstly, it is seen from the aspect of the form of mystical belief in the form of the belief system of the Musi Banyuasi