Lawangan or Luangan people are a sub-ethnic of the Dayak

Dusun people Dusun is the collective name of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group in the Malaysian state of Sabah of North Borneo. Collectively, they form the largest ethnic group in Sabah. Dusun has been recognised as among the indigenous community of ...

(East Barito) group, sometimes also referred to as Dusun Lawangan or Dayak Lawangan. The Lawangan people inhabit the eastern side of

Central Kalimantan Central Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Tengah) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five provinces in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. Its provincial capital is Palangka Raya and in 2010 its population was over 2.2 million, while the 2 ...

and

West Kutai Regency West Kutai Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kutai Barat) is a regency (''kabupaten'') in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. It previously covered a much greater area, with a population of 165,091 at the 2010 Census, but in December 2012 the five no ...

East Kalimantan East Kalimantan (Indonesian: ) is a province of Indonesia. Its territory comprises the eastern portion of Borneo. It had a population of about 3.03 million at the 2010 census (within the current boundary), 3.42 million at the 2015 census, and 3. ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. In

Tabalong Regency Tabalong Regency is one of the regencies in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan, on Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeas ...

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, the Lawangan people can be found only in Binjai village. They speak

Lawangan language Lawangan is an Austronesian language of the East Barito group. It is spoken by about 100,000 Lawangan people (one of the Dayak peoples) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a cou ...

. The organization of this people is ''Dusmala'' which is made up of three sub-ethnic

Dayak people The Dayak (; older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are one of the native groups of Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic groups, located principally in the central and southern interior of Borneo, each ...

namely,

Ma'anyan people Ma'anyan (colonial spelling Maanjan or Meanjan), Dayak Maanyan or Eastern Barito Dayak people are a sub-ethnic group of the Dayak people indigenous to Borneo. They are also considered as part of the east Barito Dusun group with the name Dusun Ma ...

and Lawangan people.

Lawangan sub-ethnic

The sub-ethnic of the Lawangan people are:- * Dayak Benuaq people * Dayak Bentian people * Dayak Bawo people * Dayak Tunjung people * Dayak Kutai people (practices

Malay culture Malays ( ms, Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations — areas that are col ...

) * Dayak Paser people * Tawoyan people (77% similarity in language) * Dusun Deyah people (53% similarity in language)

Culture

Food

* Bagamat, a giant bat meat gravy cooked with garlic and various vegetables.

Customary region

is made up of four Dayak cultural region, where one them includes the customary region of the Lawangan people, which are:- * Binjai village, the customary region of the Lawangan people * Warukin village, the customary region of the

* The ten villages that compose Upau district, Haruai district and Bintang Ara district, the customary region of the Denyah Kampung Sepuluh people * Muara Uya district and Jaro district, the customary region of the Denyah people Outside of these four Dayak customary regions in

, there are also the

Banjar people The Banjar or Banjarese ( bjn, Urang Banjar; ) are an indigenous ethnic group native to the Banjar regions (notably Banjarmasin, Banjarbaru, Banjar Regency, etc.) in the southeastern Kalimantan hemisphere of Indonesia. Nowadays, Banjarese di ...

which forms the majority of the Tabalong population, although the

are not tied to the customary laws of the

References

External links

Lawangan people
{{Asia-ethno-group-stub Ethnic groups in Indonesia Dayak people